Last week I posted the following thing:

“I have made the following online dictionary of quotations — with a Corner posting!

“(I’m right there between Chauncey Depew and Rene Descartes.)”

Readers grumbled that the link didn’t work. I tried it & it didn’t — the

site was having problems. Seems to be fixed now. In case not, here is my

entry in that online dictionary of quotations:

“One thing about Ronald Reagan that struck me time and again was his

obvious, visceral loathing of communism. For him it wasn’t just a difference

of opinion about economics or governance: he saw through the whole thing to

its essentially anti-human nature. And this was at a time, we all too easily

forget, when plenty of people in the West — I think a majority of the

intellectual classes even as late as the 1980s — didn’t mind communism at

all, thought in fact that it was just the ticket, if perhaps not for the

USA, at least for poor counties like Nicaragua. Reagan had the firmest,

clearest, truest moral compass of any modern President. May he rest in

peace. – John Derbyshire“