His essay, “ Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite ,” coined the term “Davos Man.” The argument was that, for the first time in its history, the United States had produced a class that had no use for the United States itself, on display each year at the pageantry going on in Davos. The problem with Dostoevsky is that you feel if you walked into the room yourself and slapped one of the characters across the face – if just one of these people came to their senses for a single moment – the whole novel would stop. PR: My old friend Christopher Buckley dropped me a line four or five months ago to let me know that the archivist at the Hoover Institution had just visited him at his home in Connecticut, and that he had given to Hoover the typewriter that his father, my hero, friend, and mentor, Bill Buckley, had used in the offices of National Review.
Author: March 2, 2026
Published at: 2026-03-02 00:00:00
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