June 29, 2004

Bill Buckley, 1955. " Ideas have to go into exchange to become or remain operative; and the medium of such exchange is the printed word .. it is at this point that we steal the march. For we offer, besides ourselves, a position that has not grown old under the weight of a gigantic, parasitic bureaucracy, a position untempered by the doctoral dissertations of a generation of Ph.D's in social architecture, unattenuated by a thousand vulgar promises to a thousand different pressure groups, uncorroded by a cynical contempt for human freedom. And that, ladies and gentlemen, leaves us just about the hottest thing in town .. ". More "Publisher�s Statement, 1955". Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack