My old friend and mentor Ralph Raico has died. He was 80. I cannot adequately describe how much I learned from him over the years: about liberalism, about how to be a historian, about how to lecture, about how to be an honest scholar. I will miss his wisdom, his humor, his encyclopedic knowledge. I will cherish many good memories.
Several of his lectures are online. A good place to start is here:
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J. Burden joined me to discuss the major problems conflicting Gen Z.
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