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Jean Raspail, 5 July 1926 — 13 June 2020
Jean Raspail is best known in the United States for The Camp of the Saints (1973), a dystopian novel predicting Europe being overwhelmed by massive Third World immigration. He was philosophically a...
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A Recent Casualty of the Culture Wars
Mike Adams, 1964-2020. Mark Steyn write a tribute to Mike Adams, an apparent recent suicide after being driven from his teaching job at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington by the Woke...
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Elliott Brause 1937-2020
Quality Wine, just to the left of Cutler’s. 1970s or 1980s photo with Broadway under construction. A Yale friend forwarded today the New Haven Independent obituary for Elliot Brause, the genial owner...
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Sir Peregrine Worsthorne (22 December 1923 – 4 October 2020)
For once the Times outdoes the Telegraph in its obituary of a colorful British figure. If you have to die, it’s nice to have so as to be memorialized like Peregrine Worsthorne. It was said of Sir...
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“I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You”
Leslie Ray Charping, Nov 20, 1942 – Jan 30, 2017 Texas families don’t mince words. This outspoken obituary made international news. Leslie Ray “Popeye” Charping was born in Galveston on November 20,...
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Paul Novgorod, Claremont Owner Dies at 73
The Times reports: Paul Novograd, whose reluctant decision to shutter his familyâ€s century-old Claremont Riding Academy in 2007 turned Manhattan into a no-horse town, died on Friday. He was 73. His...
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Robert Maynard Pirsig (6 September 1928 – 24 April 2017)
Plato’s Chariot Metaphor as sculpture. Plato, in the Phaedrus, conceives of the soul as having three parts: A rational part (the part that loves truth and knowledge, which should rule over the other...
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Ueli Steck (4 October 1976 — 30 April 2017)
The Washington Post reports the speed-climber, a hero to the international Alpinist community, died from a fall on Sunday. The last time Ueli Steck traversed the route near Mount Everest that would...
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Bye, Mom!
This obituary from the Redwood Fall (Minnesota) Gazette went viral yesterday.
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Anthony Bourdain, 1956-2018
Best-selling Chef Anthony Bourdain apparently killed himself last Friday in Paris. Here are some dining tips he published in the New Yorker back in 1999. The fish specialty is reasonably priced, and...
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Colonel Cyril Richard “Rick” Rescorla (May 27, 1939 — September 11, 2001)
Captain Rescorla in action at Ia Drang, Republic of Vietnam, 15 November 1965. photograph: Peter Arnett/AP. Born in Hayle, Cornwall, May 27, 1939, to a working-class family, Rescorla joined the...
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Requiem for the Village Voice
Irony of ironies, Telly Davidson, in the Paleocon American Conservative, pays tribute to the passing, and has kind words for, the red rag Village Voice. As a respected and accomplished Boomer-era...
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Good Obituary
Delaware Online: Wilmington – Rick Stein, 71, of Wilmington was reported missing and presumed dead on September 27, 2018 when investigators say the single-engine plane he was piloting, The Northrop,...
View ArticleStan Lee: Dead at 95
Wikipedia: Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, and publisher. He was the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, and...
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George H. W. Bush, 12 June 1924 — 30 November 2018
George H. W. Bush, captain of the Yale Baseball team. As the photo above demonstrates, George Herbert Walker Bush was the living embodiment of the All-American Boy ideal represented in fiction set at...
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Jonas Mekas, 24 December 1922 — 23 January 2019.
Guardian obituary. Back in the late 1970s, Mekas did a showing of “Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania” (1972) at Film Forum in New York. Back in Soviet times, Americans had seen a lot more of...
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“W.E.B. Griffin”— November 10, 1929 – February 12, 2019
Obituary: William E. Butterworth III, the best-selling author, has died. He was 89, and had fought a years-long battle with cancer. While his body of work includes more than 250 books published under...
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Charles McCarry, 14 June 1930 — 26 February 2019
WaPo obituary: Charles McCarry spent almost 10 years in the CIA as an undercover officer, operating alone as he roamed throughout Africa, Europe and Asia in the 1950s and 1960s. He never carried a...
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