The sad news came today of the death of Forrest MacDonald, one of the greatest intellectual historians America has produced. McDonald’s specialty was the Founding Fathers and he was unapologetically conservative. He once said the two facts were closely related, because a proper understanding of the Founders’ concerns and intentions – particularly their obsession with constraining and dispersing political power – inevitably pointed one toward an appreciation of the conservative virtues. A humorous and courtly gentleman, McDonald was an embodiment of those virtues himself.
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