re: #12 elizajane

To this has the once mighty (or at least, debate-worthy) National Review fallen.

I wouldn’t even go that far. WFB’s mastery of the English language still covered a great deal of good ol’ boy racism, and he was also anti-science in the issue of his day, e.g., evolution.

WFB stiff-armed the looniest of right-wing conspiracy nuts, but he was as entrenched in atavism as the next “conservative”. His rare forays out of that box need to be seen in light of the totality of his arguing against much change.