When William F. Buckley Jr. died in 2008, the United States lost its most articulate champion of conservative ideas. Over the ...

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 ...

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America' by Sam Tanenhaus. Though William F. Buckley Jr. was often imitated, said Louis Menand in The New Yorker, "at heart he w ...

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 ...

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

When Donald Trump tells a truth, it can be as striking as it is rare. So when he went on ABC’s This Week during the 2016 ...

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

How was this hometown pro-segregation paper forgotten?

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 ...

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 ...