Opinion

William F. Buckley Jr.

In this piece, William F. Buckley Jr. recounts the ordeal of Kenneth Tynan, the famous English drama critic called to testify before Congress after praising Fidel Castro.
William F. Buckley Jr. as a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) charitable organization in 1991. A special book of essays from today’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, William F. Buckley Jr. was a one-of-a-kind character: an author and columnist, and a celebrity intellectual. He ...
William F. Buckley Jr. is widely known as one of the architects of modern conservatism in America. From its beginnings in 1966, Buckley’s program “Firing Line” offered lively conversation and debate ...
William F. Buckley Jr., 1925-2008, masterminded a conservative, Catholic challenge to selective liberal dogmas. His fame exceeded his intellectual depth and principles. He knew what he was against ...
B efore Charlie Kirk and Christopher F. Rufo, there was William F. Buckley Jr., a conservative polemicist with a mellifluous voice, impish grin, and instinct for the jugular. Buckley, who died in 2008 ...
The U.S. Postal Service unveils its commemorative William F. Buckley Jr. stamp in New Haven, Connecticut, on Sept. 9. (USPS) NEW HAVEN, Conn. — On a tranquil, sun-dappled afternoon here, the day ...
Sam Tanenhaus is the author of a superb biography of the onetime communist mole and later conservative journalist Whittaker Chambers. Soon after the publication of that book in 1997, word circulated ...
After reading George Will’s column, “Buckley would recognize Kirk as a kindred spirit,” in the Sept. 14 LNP | LancasterOnline Perspective section, I imagined a debate between the two of them: William ...
NEW YORK — William F. Buckley Jr. — the conservative pundit, TV host, author, staunch defender of erudition and the English language and unabashed bon vivant and society figure — died Wednesday ...
THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT is replete with ironies, perhaps none greater than this: The supreme sin on the American right today is the cultivation of intellectual and moral standards separate ...
One of the architects of the modern conservative movement, who rose to prominence as a public intellectual and influenced generations of politicians—including Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater.