The Corner

The Cruiser, RIP

Conor Cruise O’Brien, dead at 91. Irish liberal, man of letters, biographer of Burke and Jefferson. As I recall, several Burkeans weren’t pleased with his Burke book and several conservatives rather liked his Jefferson book.

John J. Miller, the national correspondent for National Review and host of its Great Books podcast, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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