Melvin E. “Mel” Bradford (May 8, 1934 – March 3, 1993) was a conservative political commentator and Professor of Literature at the University of Dallas. He was the author of “A Better Guide than Reason: Federalists and Anti-Federalists”, “Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the Constitution”, “Founding Fathers: Brief Life of the Framers of the Constitution”, and “The Reactionary Imperative: Essays Literary & Political.”
William Faulkner’s Last Words & the American Dilemma
The lesson of William Faulkner’s “Gold Medal” speech is both in the teaching it offers and in the method we must employ to grasp that meaning. It is a work of political imagination, drawing its rhetoric from the same fountainhead as poetry. The Summer of 1971, we Americans were removed by only half a decade from [...]