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Sam Tanenhaus on William F. Buckley Jr., his legacy, and his impact on the modern American conservative movement. Plus: David ...

While only a small number of us live to be 100, everyone's birthday has a centenary date. For historians who seem mostly to ...

Social Security Is No Longer the Third Rail of American Politics It Is Everywhere New Economic Plan, Old Economic Folly A Reader’s Guide to the Sam Tanenhaus Biography of William F. Buckley Jr. Elon ...

The year 2025 marks the centenary of modern conservativism’s founder, William F. Buckley Jr. But given the takeover of the Republican Party by Donald Trump, whether conservative still means what it ...

Explore the life of William F. Buckley Jr., a pivotal figure in 20th-century American thought and culture. Renowned for his wit and influence, Buckley shaped modern conservatism, guided the national ...

Bill Buckley, who had grown up in a home full of sisters, offered to help. Pat reached out a hand, still regally holding the receiver with the other, and Bill set to this intimate task, uncapping the ...

Sylvia Plath once waxed poetic about this Connecticut estate. It's where conservative firebrand William F. Buckley Jr. began his education in a "cozy little schoolhouse" on the property. But the ...

Bill Buckley the literary man and editor was also a discoverer and nurturer of talented young writers whose work he published in National Review, the magazine he founded in 1955. Some of the best ...

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution that Changed America, by Sam Tanenhaus, Random House, 1,040 pages, $40 For decades, William F. Buckley Jr.—journalist, editor, novelist, television host, mayoral ...

I cried and cried and cried on the night of Feb. 27, 2008. I'm not sure anyone ever did that while watching Charlie Rose on PBS before. But there I was. William F. Buckley Jr. had died that day, and ...