The gods must have smiled ruefully when they took James Q. Wilson only one day after Andrew Breitbart. Here were two men who personified some of the tensions of contemporary conservatism. Breitbart was a sixties-style activist, an impatient, brawling radical whose antic energy and passion turned him into a rock star for a younger generation of conservatives. It’s said that heart problems may have caused his sudden collapse on the street near his Los Angeles home, but to me it seems possible he just exploded from within.
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