‘In the end, I suppose, it all comes down to gratitude’

One of my favorite quotes from William F. Buckley Jr., a founding father of the conservative movement whose wisdom we sure could use right now is, “we are basket cases of ingratitude, so many of us.”

I was reminded of this quote – which I happen to have on the door of my office at National Review, the magazine Buckley founded – when I read a recent essay by Charles Murray on assisted suicide. The p…