William F. Buckley Newsletter
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The sad decline of Gore Vidal, America’s most acerbic writer and fearsome feuder
07 Apr 2025 05:57 GMT
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Showdown: William Buckley and Vidal face off in … with Vidal in Italy, writer Erica Jong described Vidal as … Henry James collection, a writer Vidal described as “the … of acerbic, insightful political commentator missing in a social media …
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Recalling Media Hostility for Bill Buckley & Conservative Movement
15 Dec 2024 16:22 GMT
… 1950s conservatives: “He legitimized the conservative movement in America because he … series of televised debates with William Buckley,” Deborah Solomon asked Vidal. “How … . Buckley played in promoting intelligent conservative ideas. Liberals know his value …
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Commentary: Let us review the bidding …
22 Nov 2024 05:36 GMT
For those individuals who are clamoring for Israel to immediately cease hostilities let us review the bidding of just one of Israel’s “neighbors” — Hezbollah or “The Party of God.”
Hezbollah was established by Lebanese clerics primarily to fight the 1982 …
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Today's celebrity Catholic converts lean conservative
23 Sep 2024 10:38 GMT
… and current Fox News commentator Newt Gingrich; social media … Party, moving the conservative movement towards an economic … opinion journal founded by conservative Catholic William Buckley. She later went … after decades as a writer for the organization …
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Trump’s attack on academia
20 Apr 2025 14:49 GMT
… about 12 years, was the conservative William Buckley’s favorite campus. While providing …
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No surprise UW faculty don't like 'conservative' ideology -- Daniel Bromley
28 Jul 2024 10:23 GMT
… of America. Other so-called “conservative” ideas seem rather unappealing to … — as articulated by the late William Buckley — to “stand athwart history.”
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Stunning childhood home of William F. Buckley, the father of the modern American Conservative Party, on sale for $5.5million
15 May 2024 17:03 GMT
… Review magazine and prolific conservative writer.
The 8,872-square … in 1812 and bought by William Buckley Sr. in 1923.
… Buckley Jr. founded the conservative magazine National Review and hosted … with Genesis,' political commentator George Will wrote in …
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Jane Coaston: The debate that Hugh Hefner won and William Buckley lost
19 Mar 2023 00:02 GMT
In 1966, William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of National Review, hosted Hugh Hefner, the founder of the wildly successful Playboy magazine, on Mr. Buckley’s weekly public affairs show, “Firing Line,” for a discussion of sexual ethics.
On the show, Mr. …
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This Year, Read These Classic Conservative Books
26 Dec 2023 05:06 GMT
… 2. The Conscience of a Conservative by Senator Barry Goldwater. … it into the ground.”) William Buckley, known around the office with … candidate.
Conscience of a Conservative was an instant classic. … Binyamin Appelbaum, lead economics writer for the New York …
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The William Buckley and Edgar Smith Saga
16 Jun 2022 14:29 GMT
William Buckley and Edgar Smith, 1971. (Photo … Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts … first inspiration for the crime writer Mary Higgins Clark), in … the attention of the prominent conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr., …