George Will and the Lester Maddox Question
George Will recently appeared on C-SPAN's "In-Depth" series to discuss his writings. The Washington Post columnist commented while discussing his 1968 dissertation at Princeton, Beyond the Reach of Majorities: Closed Questions in the Open Society: When you [Brian Lamb] and I were young people in college, it was an open question whether states had a right to force public accommodations Lester Maddox's Pickrick restaurant in Georgia to take all comers…Well, 50 years later, that's a stone, cold, dead, closed question, and aren't we glad? That's progress. In that sense, we're less tolerant, but who cares? First, an historical … Continue reading George Will and the Lester Maddox Question
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