I Miss Bill Buckley

[Tarheel Baptist]

Meanwhile intellectuals on the left know that men can get pregnant, deliver and nurse babies!

 

[JimKnox]

Left or Right: pick your side, but there is no greater intellect these days than Thomas Sowell.
Sadly, he may not be with us very much longer since he is in his 90s.

 

[Ransom]

Left or Right: pick your side, but there is no greater intellect these days than Thomas Sowell.

Sowell is a good mind that I missed.

Also (looking at my bookshelf) Mark Steyn, a well-rounded pundit.

 

[ALAYMAN]

Off the top of my head, it seems to me like Michael Knowles has a pretty solid intellectual foundation behind his arguments. He could be William F. Buckley's spiritual successor.

Also at the Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro is obviously also very well read (as law-school graduates tend to be) but he's the very archetype of the "own the libs" kind of conservative that the article is complaining about. (Also, his books tend to be of the We're Hosed: Why Liberals Are So Stupid popular variety that keeps Regnery Press going.)

Also amongst the law graduates, Ann Coulter has a brilliant mind but uses it more for wit than serious reasoning.

Charlie Kirk, despite his lack of higher education, was clearly quite capable of self-education and it showed in the quality of his arguments. But it's hard to say what sort of philosophy he imbibed. And of course, unfortunately he's one of the ones no longer with us. I appreciate that he spent his time going out and talking to his audience and adversaries, rather than zinging them from the sidelines.

I’d put Al Mohler in the circle, even if it is at the perimeter. He’s not a lightweight, his Thinking In Public features erudite meaty discussions of various contemporary intellectual issues.

 

[Ransom]

I’d put Al Mohler in the circle, even if it is at the perimeter. He’s not a lightweight, his Thinking In Public features erudite meaty discussions of various contemporary intellectual issues.

Sure, there are plenty of solid, conservative intellectuals within the church: Mohler, Denny Burk, Owen Strachan, Carl Trueman, others. I was thinking more of people with a broader scope and appeal than church circles.

 

[Ekklesian]

Conservatism’s ugly slide from intellectual curiosity to imbecility

I’m just glad most of the “Firing Line” participants aren’t alive to see it.

www.ocregister.com

Well, you can thank the Left for setting the tone. And, no, the "rising above" BS was . God instituted violence as a check on violence Genesis 9:6.

Naturally, the rhetorical equivalent would come first. But, lest God intervene, this will result in civil war.