Father James V. Schall, S. J. remains a beloved figure among those who value intellectual curiosity, liberal learning, whimsical writing, and fidelity to the best of classical and Christian wisdom. He was a kind and witty man who corresponded widely with friends and admirers (myself included) right up to his death at the age of ninety-one on April 17, 2019.
His private letters and emails were always a pleasure to receive, not least because of the infectious humor and affection that informed them. His public readers delighted in his reading lists, his enthusiasm for the wisdom to be discerned in books old and new, his joyful assent to reality, and his determined resistance to every form of utopian delusion and ideological substitute for “the truth about man.”
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