Gleaves Whitney
If you’re not had a chance yet, please make sure you check out Gleaves Whitney’s series of essays, reminiscences, and vignettes regarding his graduate school advisor, Stephen Tonsor.
Though more or less forgotten now (as so many of the greats of the last century have been), Tonsor once stood rather high within conservative thought.
Whitney’s relationship with his mentor was not always calm, but it was certainly always sharp. He is now on a long and fascinating journey exploring exactly what that relationship meant and what his advisor signified to him and to the republic.
Don’t miss this excellent series Whitney is writing. There’s nothing he does that is not critically important, but, even by his always exacting standards, Whitney is producing some thing innovative, artistic, and moving.
Here’s the first piece: http://gleaveswhitney.blogspot.com/2016/08/to-hone-one-mind-against-gritty-stone_31.html
Thank you, my friend, for the supportive post. I deeply appreciate it and have friends and colleagues like you in mind as I write this series. For some reason, the link above does not seem to be working. This following worked when I tried it out: http://gleaveswhitney.blogspot.com/2016/08/to-hone-one-mind-against-gritty-stone_31.html
Thanks, Brad, and see you in Philadelphia when you are awarded the prize for Russell Kirk!