The great Irish intellectual, scholar, and diplomat Conor Cruise O’Brien has died.  Although for many OJ readers, he is remembered most as a diplomat – at the center of the United Nations and the Congo Crisis of 1961 – his greatest influence on me was through his massive study of Edmund Burke, The Great Melody.   One passage that O’Brien … Continue reading Conor Cruise O’Brien, 1917-2008: Ave Atque Vale