“As well as being a vehicle for a certain political outlook — the one we just described to you — National Review, like any well-established periodical, has a character, a personality. It is the personality of our founder, Mr. Buckley, whose portrait you saw on the wall coming in. The magazine, like its founder, is opinionated, but generous to opponents; thoughtful, without being intellectual in the self-conscious, self-absorbed European sense; tolerant, but within firmly declared boundaries; spiced with humor and mild satire, but never frivolous; taking politics seriously, as a domain of great events and great responsibilities, yet never thinking that politics should dominate human affairs; never losing sight of the high ideals of our Western civilization.”
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Lo acabo de ver. Por fortuna, tanto como Friedman, tuvieron largas, productivas e inspiradoras vidas.
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ReplyDelete“As well as being a vehicle for a certain political outlook — the one we just described to you — National Review, like any well-established periodical, has a character, a personality. It is the personality of our founder, Mr. Buckley, whose portrait you saw on the wall coming in. The magazine, like its founder, is opinionated, but generous to opponents; thoughtful, without being intellectual in the self-conscious, self-absorbed European sense; tolerant, but within firmly declared boundaries; spiced with humor and mild satire, but never frivolous; taking politics seriously, as a domain of great events and great responsibilities, yet never thinking that politics should dominate human affairs; never losing sight of the high ideals of our Western civilization.”