Richard M. Weaver

Richard M. Weaver (1910 - 1963), a conservative U.S. scholar, wrote on rhetoric, the teaching of composition, the culture of America's south, and the problem of universals.

His best-known works are Ideas Have Consequences, The Southern Tradition at Bay and Visions of Order.

Some of the positions Weaver took, such as his opposition to McCarthy-era rules requiring the registration of members of the Communist Party, set him apart from many of his fellow conservatives.

Weaver is the subject of a biography by Fred Douglas Young, published in 1995.