Buckley’s Mix

Are creative people necessarily liberal?

Is a queston posed by Roger Simon, who answers yes. Creative people are natural risk-takers, and conservative aren’t risk-takers. Q.E.D. I enjoyed his book, but on this one he’s wrong on so many levels: 1. So risk-taking entrepreneurs are liberals? 2. So the most innovative writers and poets of the last 100 years were liberals? Think Eliot, Faulkner, [...]