William Safire (1929-2009)

By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  September 27th at 06:28 PM  | 

Bill Safire died today.  As self-styled wordsmiths, opinionators and pundits we are all the poorer for his passing. Safire could be a maddening soul–he was not a party man but rather the creature of his own principles, civil liberties first and foremost among them.  As such, he could not be depended upon by left or right to deploy his elegant prose on demand.  He followed | Read More »