educational policy was a subject dear to russell kirk skort -- hard. nd then kirk saw, there his name was, there was frank meyer and other libertarians and he picks up the phone and he calls for buckley and he is outraged. he says i will not -- take me off. take me off. so buckley does take them off. but nevertheless, kirk agrees to write this column, and he does. he writes this column, from the academy. he writes it for 25 years. and for 25 years he viewed it, his criticism of libertarianism. after he quit "national review" in 1980, the following year he resumed his slashing critique of libertarianism. the battle had been over many years before that, many years before that, and for other reasons, clinton rossiter and peter barrick left the field of battle as well. they fell into criticizing each other. if they never cohered. they decided that as the old fridge if you can't take the kit -- if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen as they were lambasted by conservatives your very quick on cue retreated to poetry. he won a pulitzer prize in poet