A monumental conservative intellectual and social scientist has passed away. I saw him not long ago at a tribute dinner at AEI, where George Will and Charles Murray toasted him beautifully. He was a wonderful, generous, open, and fiercely rigorous-minded intellectual who helped guide countless people in and out of the conservative movement and mainstream academia. And: a National Review contributor.
I think we’ve had enough death this week.
"I think we’ve had enough death this week."
Kind of gives us a sense of what our troops deal with daily.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse...and what the family members of victims of Islamofascist terrorism deal with daily.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseA terrible loss. He was among the most brilliant, important and influential voices of the neo-conservative movement, especially on crime issues. I believe he is irreplaceable.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis sure doesn't deserve to be billed "and among other conservatives passing away this week," IMO. (Not to say that Jonah is presenting it that way.) A giant among modern conservative intellectuals.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"The Moral Sense" should be mandatory college reading.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMy mother always says these things come in threes, which is of course absurd, but it is odd how often it seems that way to me. In my little corner of the universe you have these three very different people from three very different worlds; Davey Jones, Andrew Brietbart and now James Q. Wilson. I'm with Jonah on this, enough for one week.
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