Bernard Crick

Bernard Crick has died. About 10 years ago I had a brief correspondence with him hoping he’d be interested in attending the inaugural conference of the Michael Oakeshott Association. In Oakeshott circles, Crick was notorious for his snippy article on Oakeshott entitled “The World of Michael Oakeshott: Or the Lonely Nihilist”, Encounter, 20 (June 1963). From what I recall, his view of Oakeshott had mellowed in the intervening years. Crick’s book In Defence of Politics was a fine book. See the Telegraph obituary.