{"id":10809,"date":"2017-09-30T12:34:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T12:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=10809"},"modified":"2017-09-30T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T12:38:59","slug":"high-hefner-and-william-buckley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/high-hefner-and-william-buckley\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Hefner And William Buckley"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6urrMnS7xTc\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nrinstitute.org\/programs\/center-for-religion-culture-and-civil-society\"><strong><em>From the National Review Institute:<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. AND HUGH HEFNER<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">While putting together a short booklet on William F. Buckley&#8217;s writings about virtue, which will be published by the National Review Institute in the coming months, I was struck by the fact that some of his most beautiful writing on virtue was for <em>Playboy<\/em>. I think that could be an under-appreciated kind of &#8220;going to the peripheries&#8221; that Pope Francis often talks about. On that note, this week&#8217;s William F. Buckley Jr. flashback is him interviewing Hugh Hefner on <em>Firing Line<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I was struck, too, in an interview with CBS &#8211; Hefner was being interviewed alongside Harvey Cox &#8211; where Hefner said, &#8220;I think that there are certain aspects of adolescence that might be best retained for a lifetime.&#8221; His legacy, then, might be quite easily summed up as: Mission accomplished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">But how did Hefner get that, and how might it be instructive about healing the wounds of the sexual revolution and moving forward in helping people rebuild? I was struck by Christopher West&#8217;s piece <a href=\"http:\/\/click.email-nrinstitute.org\/?qs=e2b336d6d7b796cf0b25e56faec81287f9fab7dba4a9257d3a071f79ee08db71b9ae693c80eaf32561d7adece176aa524b9ea806fde37360\">here<\/a> and one quote in particular from Hefner he cited:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Our family was. . . Puritan[ical] in a very real sense. . . . Never hugged. Oh, no. There was absolutely no hugging or kissing in my family. There was a point in time when my mother, later in life, apologized to me for not being able to show affection. That was, of course, the way I&#8217;d been raised. I said to her, &#8220;Mom, . . . because of the things you weren&#8217;t able to do, it set me on a course that changed my life and the world.&#8221; When I talk about the hurt and hypocrisy in some of our values &#8211; our sexual values &#8211; it comes from the fact that I didn&#8217;t get hugged a lot as a kid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There are real people and there is real pain between even the most destructive movements. And a quote like that highlights the urgency of efforts to help loving family life and community happen for people. (I&#8217;m just thinking of people like the Verrets behind &#8220;Witness to Love&#8221; we highlighted a few weeks ago and Mark Regernus trying to make clear the urgency of what we&#8217;re dealing with; what people are suffering with, stumbling on a road that may never make it to marriage for them.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">If you missed the event we had with Mary Rose and Ryan Verret at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, you can watch it here:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Anyway, more about that next week. The episode of <em>Firing Line<\/em> is worth watching. (Which is pretty much always the case, though.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"uncategorized\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1506774861\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Hugh Hefner And William Buckley\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the National Review Institute: WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. 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