While there are some striking similarities between the ideologue of Reagan Republicanism and its disrupter, they are from two ...

The author of a new biography talks about the conservative journalist’s life and legacy.

In 1965, writer William F. Buckley entered the race ... bus to Manhattan Sunday nights to watch the taping of “Firing Line.” “Buckley would debate the merits of the idea, not the kind ...

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution that Changed America, by Sam Tanenhaus, Random House, 1,040 pages, $40 For decades, ...

William F. Buckley Jr. was the erudite heart of American conservatism. But the political vision that he helped forge was—and ...

A new biography traces the ascent of a man who made the postwar right at once urbane, combative, and camera-ready.

Though he died in 2008, Buckley’s twilight began well before that. He left National Review in 2004, and “Firing Line” aired his last debate in 1999. Politicians like Donald Trump or pundits ...

William F. Buckley, Jr. is widely considered one of ... As founder of the National Review and host of the public affairs program “Firing Line” for over 30 years, Buckley created new spaces ...

Where would modern American conservatism be without William F. Buckley Jr ... (RELATED: The Panama Canal and the Firing Line Debate) Buckley also sailed across oceans and wrote books about ...

The “American Masters” production does its ostensible duty, exploring the origins, education and machinations of William F. Buckley Jr. as an architect of American conservatism. But his wit is ...

Stephen Spender had spent the Thirties as Mr Buckley puts it dancing along the precipice attempting at once literary integrity and Communist fellow traveling He recovered from that infatuation and ...

Mr Buckley reminds us that Theodore White once wrote that New York City was ungovernable Prior mayors proved White correct Then Ed Koch took over followed by Rudy Giuliani and things were looking ...