I used to watch Firing Line in the 80s as a young man, and he really inspired me. I was fortunate enough as an undergraduate and was highly involved in a conservative student organization, which I helped to create, and we accessed student activity funds and brought him to speak on our campus. A friend and I picked him up in a really shitty 87 Sentra. The passenger door only opened from the inside. I was really embarrassed, but he was totally cool about it. He had an amazing talk at our super liberal university and took questions for a long time at the end. Great guy.
The Left lampooned him as an elitist, but he was anything but.
We don't have anybody like him now, unfortunately. In terms of wit and intellect, I would say Ann Coulter comes close, but she lacks his character and intellectual honesty.
National Review is an embarrassment now, obviously.
I used to watch Firing Line in the 80s as a young man, and he really inspired me. I was fortunate enough as an undergraduate and was highly involved in a conservative student organization, which I helped to create, and we accessed student activity funds and brought him to speak on our campus. A friend and I picked him up in a really shitty 87 Sentra. The passenger door only opened from the inside. I was really embarrassed, but he was totally cool about it. He had an amazing talk at our super liberal university and took questions for a long time at the end. Great guy.
The Left lampooned him as an elitist, but he was anything but.
We don't have anybody like him now, unfortunately. In terms of wit and intellect, I would say Ann Coulter comes close, but she lacks his character and intellectual honesty.
National Review is an embarrassment now, obviously.