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Article: Right Thinking Richard Weaver.(Review)
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- Insight on the News
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- February 8, 1999
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Fifty years ago, this college English professor wrote what has been called the `source and origin' of contemporary conservatism. His words seem even more apt today.
Some of the best things don't age, they just get better. It's been a half-century since Richard Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences was published by the University of Chicago Press, and his critiques of the shortcomings of American society are as vivid and accurate today as then. The same holds true for Weaver's suggestions for getting us out of the social and cultural crisis he so ably described.
The 1948 book long since has become a classic of modern American conservatism. Weaver himself came ...