W.F.B. R.I.P.

William F. Buckley has died. Like so many in my generation I read WFB's syndicated column and watched his television show on PBS. While I grew to disagree with him on so many issues, he was one of the first people to show me the possibilities of seriously engaging moral and intellectual issues. In a time when irony was laying its roots around the cornerstone of culture, WFB demonstrated the merit of being morally serious and the thrill of turning over a few rocks to see what lay underneath.

Godspeed.