1. Joseph Sobran wrote for the National Review magazine from 1972 to 1993.
22 Facts About Joseph Sobran
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Joseph Sobran graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
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Joseph Sobran studied for a Master of English degree with a concentration on Shakespearean studies.
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In 1972, while at Eastern Michigan, Sobran published rebuttals of criticisms from other faculty of an upcoming campus visit by William F Buckley Jr.
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Joseph Sobran was a syndicated columnist, first with the Los Angeles Times and later with the Universal Press Syndicate.
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Joseph Sobran wrote a monthly column for the traditionalist Catholic Family News and the "Bare Bodkin" column for Chronicles magazine.
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Joseph Sobran was a media fellow of the Mises Institute.
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In 1993, in a column in The Wanderer, Joseph Sobran attacked Buckley for his support of the 1991 Gulf War.
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Joseph Sobran was named the Constitution Party's vice presidential nominee in 2000, but withdrew later that year due to scheduling conflicts.
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In 2001 and 2003, Sobran spoke at conferences organized by David Irving and shared the podium with Paul Fromm, Charles D Provan, and Mark Weber, director of the Institute for Historical Review.
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Joseph Sobran died in a nursing home in Fairfax, Virginia, on September 30,2010, of kidney failure due to diabetes.
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Joseph Sobran claimed to support a strict interpretation of the United States Constitution.
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Joseph Sobran asserted that the Tenth Amendment meant that almost every federal government act since the Civil War had been illegal.
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In 2002, Joseph Sobran announced his philosophical and political shift to libertarianism, citing inspiration by theorists Murray Rothbard and Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
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Joseph Sobran asserted in the neo-Confederate Southern Partisan magazine that Martin Luther King Jr.
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Joseph Sobran said Catholic teachings were consistent with his opposition to abortion and the Iraq War.
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Joseph Sobran frequently used his columns to criticize Israel, the Holocaust and Zionism.
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In one column, Joseph Sobran wrote that The New York Times "really ought to change its name to Holocaust Update".
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Joseph Sobran claimed those policies are formed by the Jewish lobby.
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Joseph Sobran claimed that the official number of Holocaust victims was inaccurate and that Nazi Germany was not intent on racial extermination.
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Joseph Sobran said his attitude was not anti-Semitism but "more like counter-Semitism".
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At the time of his death, Joseph Sobran was working on two books, one concerning Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the United States Constitution and another about de Vere's poetry.