Sobran graduated from Eastern Michigan University in his native Ypsilanti, Michigan, with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He studied for a graduate degree in English, with a concentration on Shakespearean studies, following his graduation. In the late 1960s, Sobran lectured on Shakespeare and English on a fellowship with the university.
In 1972, Sobran began working at National Review. During the 1970s, he frequently used the byline M. J. Sobran. He stayed for twenty-one years, eighteen as senior editor, before he was removed from the publication amidst controversial charges of anti-semitism. Aside from his work at National Review, Sobran spent twenty-one years as a commentator on the CBS RadioSpectrum program series. He was a syndicated columnist, first with the Los Angeles Times, and later with the Universal Press Syndicate. In 2007, he discontinued circulation of his newsletter by mail.
"After tens of millions of [abortion] 'procedures,' has America lost anything? Another Edison, perhaps? A Gershwin? A Babe Ruth? A Duke Ellington? … As it is, we will never know what abortion has cost us all."
"Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money"
"In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college"
"War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections"
"Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission"
"The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire"
"If the welfare state is here to welcome them, the solution is to get rid of it, as should have been done long ago. Overpopulation is a problem for socialist systems, not for free societies. In fact, the welfare system may be more destructive [to] the immigrants' families than to the natives."
"I find myself surrounded by teenagers with body-piercing and exposed navels, gabbing on cell phones and listening to hip-hop. Maybe I'm missing something here. But I just don't feel the least bit threatened by immigrants."
"War is just one more big government program."
"Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right."
Once a stalwart conservative columnist for National Review, Newsweek, and the Washington Post, Will’s brand of conservatism, as JosephSobran once wrote in this esteemed journal, always had a touch of ...
Authentic conservatives like Patrick Buchanan and JosephSobran perceived decades ago that advocates of invasion tended also to be those of invitation; they were condemned and excluded as anti-Semites ...
The exchange with NBCNews’ HallieJackson went like this.. JACKSON ... HARRIS ... They did as he intended ... Wade. The pro-abortion Left after all of these years has still not answered the grave question posed by the late JosephSobran in his book SingleIssues.
Seen in this broader context, I think that the issue of Nixon’s alleged anti-Semitism recalls the famous quip made by the prominent conservative JosephSobran after he had been purged from ...
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Scrutiny of the IHRA’s document thus perhaps reveals more about Jews than it does about their critics, making one wonder whether JosephSobran was not right to say that an anti-Semite is not someone ...
In the aftermath of Hamas’s barbaric Oct ... used his perch as the founder of National Review to divorce conservatives from the antisemitism fostered by right-wingers like Buckley’s colleague JosephSobran and Republican politician Pat Buchanan ... .
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In Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comics, Linus is by far the most outstanding character ... Yet, he is also the most irrational and absurd character ... sphere ... Take the Catholics among this group, and this applies to JosephSobran and Pat Buchanan as well.
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In 1986, conservative columnist JosephSobran, in an essay headlined “Homosexuality isn’t healthy,” attacked a Newsweek story, “Growing UpGay,” that highlighted the pain caused by taunts and abuse, ...
Cleveland Jewish News
05 Dec 2023
Cleveland Jewish News
05 Dec 2023