Stands Athwart History, Yelling Stop!

National Review ^ | 11/19/1955 | William F. Buckley, Jr.

[Servant of the Cross]

"Let's face it: Unlike Vienna, it seems altogether possible that did NATIONAL REVIEW not exist, no one would have invented it. The launching of a conservative weekly journal of opinion in a country widely assumed to be a bastion of conservatism at first glance looks like a work of supererogation, rather like publishing a royalist weekly within the walls of Buckingham Palace. It is not that, of course; if NATIONAL REVIEW is superfluous, it is so for very different reasons: It stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it."

"NATIONAL REVIEW is out of place, in the sense that the United Nations and the League of Women Voters and the New York Times and Henry Steele Commager are in place. It is out of place because, in its maturity, literate America rejected conservatism in favor of radical social experimentation. Instead of covetously consolidating its premises, the United States seems tormented by its tradition of fixed postulates having to do with the meaning of existence, with the relationship of the state to the individual, of the individual to his neighbor, so clearly enunciated in the enabling documents of our Republic."

[Servant of the Cross]

I'm surprised that NRO isn't headlining this anniversary of their first issue and the famous "Stands athwart history, yelling stop" line. Unfortunately, the words that Bill Buckley used on November 19, 1955 are still just as applicable, if not moreso, today, 53 years later?!

[HighlyOpinionated]

Repeating myself, I urge all to read THE FEDERALIST PAPERS to gain insight into the minds of the Founding Fathers and to find talking points for the current situation.

Madison, Hamilton and Jay have written an authoritive analysis of the young USofA’s Constitution and an enduring classic of political philosphy.

[Servant of the Cross]

The Federalist Papers

[soroptimist]

I used to subscribe to NR, but dropped my subscription when BUCKLEY came out in favor of registering all guns.

[SunkenCiv]

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