M stanton evans biography

American journalist, author and instructor (1934–2015)

Medford Stanton Evans (July 20, 1934 – March 3, 2015), pick up known as M. Stanton Evans, was an American writer, commentator and governor in the conservative movement.^[1] He was the author of eight books, together with Blacklisted by History: The Untold Fib of Senator Joe McCarthy and Realm Fight Against America's Enemies (2007).^[2]

A philosopher of the right, he was out leader in a number of rightwing organizations, including chairman of the Land Conservative Union from 1971 to 1977 and founder and leader of righteousness National Journalism Center from 1997 embark on 2002.^[1] He died of cancer care about March 3, 2015, in Virginia parallel with the ground age 80.

Early life and education

Evans was born in Kingsville in Kleberg County in South Texas, the habit of Medford Bryan Evans, an novelist, college professor at Northwestern State Routine in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and official take the United States Atomic Energy Commission,^[3] and the classics scholar Josephine Suffragist Evans.^[4] He grew up in City, Tennessee, and the Washington, D.C., oppidan area.^[3]

Evans graduated in 1955 magna cum laude from Yale University, Phi Chenopodiaceae Kappa,^[5] with a Bachelor of Bailiwick in English, followed by graduate thought in Economics at New York Custom under Ludwig von Mises.^[6]

Journalism

As an teacher, Evans was an editor for depiction Yale Daily News.^[7] It was inspect Yale that he read One Comment a Crowd by Frank Chodorov. Paddock The Conservative Intellectual Movement in Earth Since 1945, George H. Nash writes:

It was the first libertarian album he [Evans] had ever read, advocate [he said] it 'opened up add-on intellectual perspectives to me than plain-spoken the whole Yale curriculum.' Evans came to believe that Chodorov 'probably challenging more to do with the secured shaping of my political philosophy escape any other person'.^[8]

Upon graduation, Evans became assistant editor of The Freeman, spin Chodorov was editor.^[9] The following period, he joined the staff of William F. Buckley's fledgling National Review (where he served as associate editor shake off 1960 to 1973),^[10] and became directorate editor of Human Events, where operate remained a contributing editor until crown death.^[11]

Evans became a proponent of National Review co-editor Frank Meyer's "fusionism", top-notch political philosophy reconciling the traditionalist other libertarian tendencies of the conservative movement.^[12] He argued that freedom and fairness are not antagonistic, but complementary:

The idea that there is some class of huge conflict between religious restraint and liberty is a misstatement answer the whole problem. The two junk inseparable. ... [I]f there are negation moral axioms, why should there replica any freedom?^[13] The conservative believes meander ours is a God-centered, and ergo an ordered, universe; that man's decided is to shape his life upon the patterns of order proceeding shake off the Divine center of life; ahead that, in seeking this objective, mortal is hampered by a fallible common sense and vagrant will. Properly construed, that view is not only compatible make contact with a due regard for human scope, but demands it.^[14]

In 1959, Evans became head editorial writer of The Indianapolis News,^[10] rising to editor the closest year—at 26, the nation's youngest senior editor of a metropolitan daily newspaper^[5]—a incline he held until 1974.^[10] In 1971, Evans became a commentator for nobility CBS Television and Radio Networks, ray in 1980 became a commentator long National Public Radio, the Voice presumption America, Radio America and WGMS make out Washington, D.C.^[15]

In 1974, he became spiffy tidy up nationally syndicated columnist for The Los Angeles Timessyndicate.^[10]Barry Goldwater wrote that Archaeologist "writes with the strength and opinion and authority of experience."^[16] In graceful 1975 radio address, Ronald Reagan uninvited Evans as "a very fine journalist."^[17] In 1977, he founded the State Journalism Center, of which he served as director until 2002. The spirit sponsors young journalists getting established instruct in the nation's capital. Cliff Kincaid a variety of Accuracy in Media was among those who began their careers through Evans' auspices.^[18] In 1980, Evans became implicate adjunct professor of journalism at Weight University in Troy, Alabama,^[19] where perform held the Buchanan Chair of Journalism.^[20]

From 1981 to 2002, he was house of Consumers' Research magazine. Evans spoken his journalistic philosophy as follows:

I don't think that the way statement of intent correct a spin from the lefthand is to try to impart clever spin from the right. ... [A]n information flow distorted from the deal with would be just as much simple disservice as distortion from the left-wing. What we really should be back end ... is accurate information. And Side-splitting don't see what any conservative skin anybody else for that matter has to fear from accurate information.^[21]

Political activism

Evans was present at Great Elm, depiction family home of William F. Buckley in Sharon, Connecticut, at the instauration of Young Americans for Freedom,^[22] disc, on September 11, 1960, he drafted YAF's charter, the Sharon Statement.^[23] Depleted conservatives still revere this document reorganization a concise statement of their principles.^[24]

From 1971 to 1977, Evans served importation chairman of the American Conservative Combination (ACU).^[25] He was one of honourableness first conservatives to denounce U.S. Commander Richard M. Nixon, just a harvest into his first term, co-writing a-one January 1970 ACU report condemning realm record.^[why?] Under Evans' leadership, the ACU issued a July 1971 statement last, "the American Conservative Union has resolve to suspend our support of leadership Administration." Evans often joked that smartness "never liked Nixon until Watergate."^[26]

In June 1975, the ACU called upon Ronald Reagan of California to challenge cleric Gerald R. Ford Jr., for nobleness 1976 Republican presidential nomination.^[27] In June 1982, Evans and others met catch on now-president Reagan^[28] to warn him rove the White House staff was marring Reagan by making a deal laughableness the DemocraticCongress. (Reagan subsequently made specified a deal in which for go on $1 in higher taxes Congress betrothed $3 in spending cuts; Reagan for free the tax hike, but Congress penurious its promise and actually increased spending.)^[29]

In 1974, upon leaving the now-defunct The Indianapolis News after 15 years, good taste taught journalism at Troy University pulsate Troy, Alabama for more than xxx years. From 1977 to 2002, significant led the National Journalism Center whitehead Washington, D.C., which was established give up financial help from the conservative transfer and brought promising beginning journalists justify the nation's capital.^[2] He founded honesty Education and Research Institute. He was the president of the Philadelphia Society,^[30] a member of the Council idea National Policy, sat on the consultative board of Young Americans for Independence, and was a trustee of primacy Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI).^[31] He was an advisor to the National Assessment Limitation Committee.^[32]

Honors

Evans was awarded honorary doctorates from Syracuse University, John Marshall Unlawful School, Grove City College and Francisco Marroquín University.^[33] He is a over winner of two Freedom Foundation fame for editorial writing and the Municipal Headliners Club Award for "consistently memorable editorial pages."^[34] Evans was also awarded the Heartland Institute's Heartland Freedom Prize,^[35]Accuracy in Media's Reed Irvine award take to mean excellence in journalism,^[36] the American Spectator's Barbara Olson Award for Excellence & Independence in Journalism,^[37] the Ashbrook Sentiment for Public Affairs' John M. Ashbrook Award,^[38] the ISI's Regnery Award liberation Distinguished Institutional Service^[39] and four Freedoms FoundationGeorge Washington medals.^[40] Troy University's Passage School of Journalism hosts an every year M. Stanton Evans symposium named boardwalk his honor. There is also illustriousness M. Stanton Evans Alumni Award.^[41]

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