Logo
facts about joseph sobran.html

22 Facts About Joseph Sobran

facts about joseph sobran.html1.

Joseph Sobran wrote for the National Review magazine from 1972 to 1993.

2.

Joseph Sobran graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts in English.

3.

Joseph Sobran studied for a Master of English degree with a concentration on Shakespearean studies.

4.

In 1972, while at Eastern Michigan, Sobran published rebuttals of criticisms from other faculty of an upcoming campus visit by William F Buckley Jr.

5.

Joseph Sobran was a syndicated columnist, first with the Los Angeles Times and later with the Universal Press Syndicate.

6.

Joseph Sobran wrote a monthly column for the traditionalist Catholic Family News and the "Bare Bodkin" column for Chronicles magazine.

7.

Joseph Sobran was a media fellow of the Mises Institute.

8.

In 1993, in a column in The Wanderer, Joseph Sobran attacked Buckley for his support of the 1991 Gulf War.

9.

Joseph Sobran was named the Constitution Party's vice presidential nominee in 2000, but withdrew later that year due to scheduling conflicts.

10.

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.

11.

Joseph Sobran died in a nursing home in Fairfax, Virginia, on September 30,2010, of kidney failure due to diabetes.

12.

Joseph Sobran claimed to support a strict interpretation of the United States Constitution.

13.

Joseph Sobran asserted that the Tenth Amendment meant that almost every federal government act since the Civil War had been illegal.

14.

In 2002, Joseph Sobran announced his philosophical and political shift to libertarianism, citing inspiration by theorists Murray Rothbard and Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

15.

Joseph Sobran asserted in the neo-Confederate Southern Partisan magazine that Martin Luther King Jr.

16.

Joseph Sobran said Catholic teachings were consistent with his opposition to abortion and the Iraq War.

17.

Joseph Sobran frequently used his columns to criticize Israel, the Holocaust and Zionism.

18.

In one column, Joseph Sobran wrote that The New York Times "really ought to change its name to Holocaust Update".

19.

Joseph Sobran claimed those policies are formed by the Jewish lobby.

20.

Joseph Sobran claimed that the official number of Holocaust victims was inaccurate and that Nazi Germany was not intent on racial extermination.

21.

Joseph Sobran said his attitude was not anti-Semitism but "more like counter-Semitism".

22.

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.