A onetime Democrat, Decter later rejected 'heedless and mindless leftist politics and intellectual nihilism'; she was known as the 'requisite bad guy on discussion panels'

Dubbed the 'voice of American conservatism,' right-wing media personality shaped national political conversation for a generation with distinctive brand of bombast and provocation

A manufacturer's daughter from New York, she was a scholar on Victorian England, forceful voice in the 'culture wars' and widow of neoconservative 'godfather' Irving Kristol

Roger Scruton, axed from housing panel, drew opprobrium for comments about Chinese authoritarianism, a 'Soros empire' in Hungary, the 'sudden invasion' of Muslim migrants to Europe