Sam Francis, who died 20 years ago, was a gifted conservative thinker

The late conservative thinker, who died 20 years ago Saturday , has transcended the pariah status imposed on him during his life.

Francis wrote provocative books, but unfortunately, they didn’t attract prestigious presses.

He lost his post as a prize-winning commentator at the Times in 1995 because of a long-remembered professional faux pas.

Sam Francis was an anti-liberal interventionist, a relentless critic of social reforms undertaken by the managerial state, and a populist rather than global democrat .

He refused to pay homage to private enterprise’ and might have been mistaken for one of the leftist sociologists he wrote about when he went after global corporate capitalists.