ABSTRACT
Essays on Southern culture appeared in various scholarly journals. In addition, Richard M. Weaver continued to write and lecture on rhetoric and education. There was also Weaver the conservative sage. The late 1940s and 1950s were a time of rapid conservative intellectual ferment in America. The highlight of Weaver’s years in the conservative movement came in 1962 when he was given a special award from The Young Americans For Freedom at a huge rally in New York’s old Madison Square Garden. Conservatives of Weaver’s era also had to contend with the revolutionary jurisprudence of the Warren Court. Another important statement collected in Life Without Prejudice was Weaver’s remarkable tour de force on the meaning of culture itself, a 1961 essay entitled “The Importance of Cultural Freedom.” The logic of a culture maintaining its integrity by Weaver’s definition of “exclusive” cannot be disputed.
