03/04/2015
M. Stanton Evans is shown speaking at a Young America’s Foundation event long after he was young himself. In 1960, when he was 26, he wrote the "Sharon Statement", the organization’s founding document.
M. Stanton Evans, a great conservative journalist and author of Blacklisted By History, the definitive defense of anti-communist crusader Senator Joe McCarthy, has died, at the age of eighty.
The NYT’s obit is pretty good: M. Stanton Evans, Who Helped Shape Conservative Movement, Is Dead at 80,By Adam Clymer, March 3, 2015.
In his 2010 ISI Dinner Keynote “Richard Weaver and the Brotherhood of the Book”, a very funny speech, [MP3] Evans described the phone call he got from Clymer explaining that he was preparing it — they get these things together long in advance.
I didn’t know him personally, but was a great admirer of his work. He will be greatly missed.
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