The Cusackian Academy

No Evelyn Waugh? I would have thought there was no more Cusackian figure than he.

“Rather French-heavy”?
Egads, it stinks of garlic.

“Readers doubtless would have multiple additions or subtractions to make.”

Yes:

Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

Modris Eksteins

Northrop Frye

Johan Huizinga

Antonio Machado

José Antonio Maravall

Minh Dung Louis Nghiem

Giovanni Papini

Heinrich Pesch ‎

Alberto Denti di Pirajno

Wolfgang Smith

Truly delighted to Count Miklós Bánffy as a Cusackian academician. Perhaps a future election to membership might include W.H.Auden?

I would suggest to add (in alphabetic order):
– Giovanni Agnelli
– Boris Biancheri
– Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
– Giuseppe Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo
– Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
– Staffan de Mistura
– Earl Mountbatten of Burma
– Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh
– Pius XII
– Sergio Romano

Good grief, Mr. Cusack. Your list may start off with the Angelic Doctor, but you may as well add “The Vatican II Fathers” to your list.

You’ve certainly got the ball rolling! Curious to know what half would you, without hesitating, drop? Think it would be illuminating – an even truer distillation of Cusackian heroes. Your call.

French heavy indeed! But Carton de Wiart? You must be joking, Sir! The man was a lunatic, beloved of Churchill he may have been (no recommendation in itself), but a menace to those he commanded. Not for nothing is he pilloried as Brigadier Richie-Calder in Evelyn Waugh’s “Sword of Honour” trilogy. If Carton de Wiart, then surely Auchinleck, and the literary Wavell have a higher claim on your admiration.

See above: “Membership of this list does not necessitate approval or sanction.”

I am impressed that you should have included Father Luigi Taparelli, a Jesuit: sed quam mutati ab illo!
May I add two names?
marquis Monaldo Leopardi, the real genius of the family, and the prince of Canosa, Antonio Capece Minutolo

Martin Mosebach!