Remembering Henry Regnery

What a great gentleman Henry Regnery (1912–1996) was. A man who turned inherited wealth to the service of peace and freedom, he founded Human Events, as an antiwar publication, and the then-scholarly Regnery Publishing Company. He published Human Action after Yale let it go out of print, among hundreds of other important books. I was blessed to know this giant of the Old Right, and to spend a weekend at his summer home, where I heard thrilling tales of his days in the America First Committee (his dad, a textile magnate, was an executive director) and the increasingly rotten conservative … Continue reading Remembering Henry Regnery