William F Buckley

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The Right Balance April 09, 2024

“The outside pressure of Communism” helped unify the American Right during the Cold War—that’s how Matthew Continetti put it, as we spoke in the dining room of the American Enterprise Institute, where he serves as director of domestic policy studies....

The Moynihan and Buckley Era April 08, 2024

As a measure of how lefty my upbringing was, we had a portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt hanging on the kitchen wall. My parents were ’60s activists-turned-urban pioneer social workers, my father a charter member of Missouri’s New Left, ...

How William F. Buckley Learned That Evil Is Real May 17, 2022

The literati sometimes look down on the genre of “true crime,” but it remains enormously popular (In Cold Blood was by far Truman Capote’s best-selling work) and, if done well, can teach us important lessons about human nature, the criminal justice s...

Right and Writer May 03, 2022

Steven F. Hayward has published a biography of M. Stanton Evans, a major figure in American conservatism. He was a thinker, a writer, an educator, an activist, and, not least, a journalist. In an age of liberal dominance, he was a media critic who di...

The Losing Winner and the Winning Loser of 1964 October 21, 2019

Lee Edwards on Nancy Beck Young's Two Suns of the Southwest, a look at the election of 1964....