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Wednesday, April 24. 2013

Heather MacDonald

I've been an admirer of Heather MacDonald for years and we have linked her essays many times, but it was not until last week when I read her review of the 2013 new productions at the Metropolitan Opera that I felt motivated to find out who she really is. She is versatile. I admire/envy her brain and her fearlessness.


She is a Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a frequent researcher/reporter/pundit at City Journal and many other places. She lives in NYC. I guess she qualifies as a "public intellectual." I've never heard her speaking on TV, but we don't watch TV here.


Were she a Leftie, she'd be a star at The NYT, the WaPo, TNR, or anywhere.


Her CV is impressive too.


I hope to have the chance to meet her sometime. If I had the spare $, I'd be a significant donor to the Manhattan Institute and meet some of the folks I admire like Rudy Giuliani, Heather MacDonald, Roger Kimball, John Leo, Kay Hymowitz, et al.

Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, Politics at 16:58 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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She prefers "Mac Donald". With the space.
#1 Mike (Link) on 2013-04-24 17:35 (Reply)
More on Heather

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007017.html
#2 Jeff on 2013-04-24 17:52 (Reply)
I worked with John Leo when I was a fact checker at USNews. He's a a terrific person. I can't say that about all the "names" I knew there. (cough)gloriaborger(cough)
#3 BlogDog on 2013-04-24 18:41 (Reply)
Leo is a bird watcher, which means he must be a good fellow.
#4 Bird Dog on 2013-04-24 19:20 (Reply)
BD, I donate to the Mahattan Institute the easy way; I subscibe to their City Journal magazine via my Kindle!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0038M2RJO/manhattaninstitu/
Only $ 0.99 a month, updated wirelessly, and the articles are well worth twelve bucks a year.
#5 cas on 2013-04-25 08:20 (Reply)
The only issue I have with Heather and some other prominent 'conservative' intellectuals/writers is her/their mockery of or hostility to Christianity. Hostility to the foundation of what's left of our Western culture is not conservative.
#6 phil g on 2013-04-25 09:11 (Reply)

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