Thursday, July 16, 2020

And we're better for it …

… America, Nation of Misfits | National Review. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
 Even the conservative movement was launched and nurtured by outsiders. William F. Buckley Jr. had a sui generis accent, a mashup of English boarding school, Texas, and Yankee. He was devoted to irascible odd-men-out like Albert Jay Nock, the essayist and peer of H. L. Mencken. It was reputed that Nock could be contacted outside his office only by leaving notes under a certain rock in Central Park.

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