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Today is the 206th birthday of Thomas Babington Macaulay [2].
I admire this man’s work so much that Karol and I named our son, in part, after him. (The other inspiration for our son’s name are the late Hugh Macaulay [3] and his wife, Pinky.) Our son’s name is Thomas Macaulay Boudreaux [4].
Here’s [5] the always-eloquent Wally Olson, writing a few years ago in Reason, on Macaulay. And here’s [6] Jim Powell’s fine essay on Macaulay.
Most importantly, here’s Macaulay’s 1830 essay [7] "Southey’s Colloquies on Society" — perhaps the greatest essay ever penned in the English language.
A very good intellectual biography [8] of Macaulay is by John Clive (1973).