Commencement season is upon us. And if I were giving one of the addresses this year, I’d begin with a quote from William F. Buckley Jr.: “We are basket cases of ingratitude, so many of us.”
That’s one of the most memorable quotes from National Review’s founder, as far as I’m concerned. In a 1988 speech, he said: “Our offense, . . . the near universal offense, . . . is that of the Westerner, rich or poor, learned or ignorant, who accepts without any thought the patrimony we all enjoy, those of us who live in the Free World.”
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