WFB: Five Years Gone
by John J. Miller on February 27, 2013 · 0 comments
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National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. died five years ago today. My obituary of him appeared in the Michigan Review, my old college paper:
I still remember discovering National Review as a freshman almost twenty years ago, on the rack of a small library in Markley. Little did I know that I would come to write for the magazine professionally, or that I would get to know its famous founder, William F. Buckley, Jr.
Captain Kirk
by John J. Miller on February 25, 2013 · 0 comments
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Whatever happened to the books and papers of Russell Kirk? Hillsdale College senior Katy Bachelder investigates in the current issue of her campus newspaper, which I advise as a faculty member. The article is headlined “The Lost Library of Conservative Thought.”
My own article on Kirk appeared in Traverse magazine a few years ago.
ZD30
February 22, 2013National Review Online asked for Oscar predictions and commentary. Here’s what I wrote: Hollywood and the rest of America should rally behind Zero Dark Thirty, primarily because it is an excellent and deserving movie, but also to resist the obnoxious and bipartisan efforts of Senators Feinstein, Levin, and McCain to bully moviemakers over the politically incorrect [...]
Nap Is Back
February 20, 2013My latest NRO podcast victim is Napoleon Chagnon, the acclaimed and controversial anthropologist. He’s controversial for all the wrong reasons, as my 2000 article on him tries to point out: Chagnon, according to Tierney and his allies, consciously destroyed thousands of lives. The charges are astonishing, and they’ve been reported virtually everywhere, often without skepticism. [...]
Mummies vs. Vampires
February 12, 2013If you’re the sort of person who liked my recent National Review article on mummies, then you’re probably the sort of person who will like my older National Review article on vampires.
Mummymania
February 8, 2013You know what’s cool about National Review? It lets me write about mummies. From my latest article: That’s the thing about mummies: They wake up cranky. As surely as Halloween mummies wrap themselves in toilet paper, every mummy tale comes with a curse — the enduring cliché that disturbing the eternal slumber of embalmed Egyptians [...]
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