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Stan always had a way with words:

Journalist M. Stanton Evans, who passed away at age 80 this week, spoke about his book, “Stalin’s Secret Agents” at our Author’s Night on June 18, 2013.

Our dear friend M. Stanton Evans has passed away. He was a great mentor, friend, and conservative figure, not to mention a superb and detail-oriented writer and researcher. He will be sorely missed.

Journalist M. Stanton Evans uncovers Stalin’s Secret Agents in New Deal at Accuracy in Academia author’s night on June 18, 2013.

“This gives cognitive dissonance a bad name.”

—author M. Stanton Evans on bipartisan efforts to reform health care.

“Liberals don’t care what you do as long as it’s compulsory.”

—author M. Stanton Evans

Although he focused most of his energies in his later years on researching and writing about the history of espionage and internal security in the United States, he had quite a background in economics as well, much to the benefit of his readers over the course of his career.

The Heritage Foundation held a special event to remember M. Stanton “Stan” Evans, a dear friend and mentor. One of our friends, Diana West, shared some heartwarming remarks about her interactions with Stan (she also wrote a more in-depth remembrance). She speaks at the 44:27 mark of the video below:

Those who assembled on March 12 at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Leesburg, Virginia, to celebrate the life of conservative thinker and writer M. Stanton Evans heard several references to his monumental 1994 work, The Theme is Freedom. This book is worth remembering and re-reading as we are being treated repeatedly to the […]

Stanton Evans joked about his “Law of Inadequate Paranoia” at the Thirty Fifth Annual The Pumpkin Papers Irregulars dinner on October 31, 2012. He said, “No matter how bad you think something is, when you look into it, it is always worse.” The comment was a humorous look at America’s internal security problems. People laughed, […]

M. Stanton Evans, the author of the Sharon Statement elucidating the guiding principles of Young Americans for Freedom, has passed away at 80. He leaves behind 10 books and 10,000 jokes. “When Stan’s own dad died, Stan said his father’s life was marked by ‘unfailing dedication to principle and unfailing kindness to people,’” recalled longtime […]

“Too many conservatives come to Washington thinking that it is a cesspool and wind up thinking it is a hot tub.”

—author M. Stanton Evans.