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ACF PoMoCon #20: Mark Henrie
Here’s the fourth conversation in our series in memory of Peter Lawler–I’m joined today by my friend Mark Henrie, to talk about his work as ISI, where he and Peter educated a part of conservatism’s young academic elites in the liberal arts for the better part of two decades, and also their work together on their wonderful Whit Stillman book! In between, we talk about Peter’s family and his Catholic outlook–the CIA comes in, as well as many other things…
Erratum: The series of Patristic literature in discussion is not the CUA translation, but the Ancient Writers Series.
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Morning Titus,
Another wonderful conversation. I would like to know more about the CIA dad who was Catholic, was he in the OSS in WWII?
Hey, Jim!
Yes, his name was Thomas Comerford Lawler, & he has medals from the CIA & the Pope alike to his name! You can read about him a bit in his Arlington Cemetery page. I believe this is what Tom Wolfe called a man in full-