The political commentator - subject of a new biography, "Buckley: The Life and The Revolution That Changed America" - had a ...

On the pages of National Review and, after 1966, on Firing Line, Buckley pioneered the do-your-own-research rhetorical style: ...

A landmark biography shows the storied conservative leader walking intellectual, journalistic, and financial tightropes.

Sam Tanenhaus’s long-awaited biography captures William F. Buckley Jr. and the political movement that he did so much to ...

Writer Nathan Dixon's debut, "Radical Red," imagines Tea Party conservatives who find their ideological contradictions ...

In breaking news this week, former New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus finally finished his authorized biography of William F. Buckley Jr. It took him only about 25 years to complete the 1 ...

Fun does not imply frivolity; it was instead central to Buckley’s success. He was warm, generous and had a gift for ...

Sam Tanenhaus' new biography examines the life and influence of the political commentator, magazine editor and TV debater who ...

Buckley, Jr., who in the midst of the McCarthy Red Scare famously bragged of “stand(ing) athwart history, yelling Stop.” Had Jewett any familiarity with that history, he might know that the America ...

William F. Buckley Jr. is a name that every conservative should know, especially in the year 2025, when he would have turned 100. While I cannot say ...

William F. Buckley, Jr. Papers (MS 576). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. Though he died in 2008, Buckley’s twilight began well before that.

This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. Cullen Murphy: William F. Buckley Jr. died in 2008. Two generations of Americans have no real firsthand memories of him, and probably an ...