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, a former national correspondent for National Review, 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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