Bill Buckley

Ira Glasser Remembers William F. Buckley, Jr.

Ira Glasser | Posted 03.12.2008 | Media

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I have known more than a few people in my decades of public life who took exemplary positions on the abstract questions of human rights, but were terrible people privately. Buckley was the opposite.

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Zero Worship

Sean Carman | Posted 03.02.2008 | Media

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Let's review. William Buckley was a genius because he: 1) urinated in parking garages; 2) reviewed books he hadn't read; and 3) wrote columns in... however long it takes to write a column?

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Barely Relevant Notes on Bill Buckley

John Leo | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

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He taught a generation of debaters and polemicists that adversaries were to be opposed, but not loathed. (Gore Vidal was the understandable exception.)

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Bill Buckley's Conservatism

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

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As Buckley headed into his final years, he became vehemently opposed to the crusading, neoconservative stance that the younger generation at the National Review adopted in championing the Iraq War.

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William F. Buckley -- Words Never Failed Him

John Fund | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

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Buckley was that rarest of revolutionaries, and set a standard we all should emulate for having friendships across the political divide.

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Bill Buckley

Bill Curry | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

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Buckley loved debate. Unlike today's cowardly conservatives, he never used his opponents as props or punch lines for fixed fights. What a long sad fall from Bill Buckley to Bill O' Reilly.

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My Conversation with Garry Wills about William F. Buckley, Jr.

Tavis Smiley | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

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"He was always critical of aspects of the conservative movement and began to be critical of the Iraq War. He didn't like the religious right's fanaticism."

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William F. Buckley Dead At 82

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

NEW YORK — William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he obse...

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