Bill Kristol reports that Harry V. Jaffa passed away yesterday:
Harry V. Jaffa, 1918-2015. More sad news: Harry Jaffa, the great interpreter of Lincoln (and much else) has died, age 96.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol)
January 11, 2015
By coincidence, Jaffa died on the same day as the great Walter Berns:
Cf. Adams and Jefferson. Walter Berns and Harry Jaffa, two great students of the American republic, died a continent apart on the same day.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol)
January 11, 2015
Jaffa was an important scholar of Abraham Lincoln, perhaps most known for publishing Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, which came out nearly 55 years ago. ( Here, by the way, are Jaffa's contributions to THE WEEKLY STANDARD.)
We'll have more to say on Jaffa (and Berns) in the coming days and weeks.