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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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Buckley's Rancid Career

Dennis Perrin | Posted 03.03.2008 | Media

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William F. Buckley was a reactionary that elite liberals loved. His true talent was making reprehensible opinions palatable to liberal tastes.

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My Conversation with William F. Buckley, Jr.

Charlie Rose | Posted 03.03.2008 | Media

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Over the past 15 years, Buckley appeared more than 15 times on our broadcast, even guest hosting once.

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Nil Nisi Bonum: William F. Buckley

Peter Clothier | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics

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There's no one that I know of amongst the voices on the right who is anywhere close to inheriting the colorful mantel Buckley fashioned for himself.

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William F. Buckley, R.I.P.: Rest In Peace, Praise, or is it Privilege?

Sherman Yellen | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics

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The obituaries do a disservice to Buckley, who deserves better -- better being an honest account of his disastrous views as well as his political triumph in helping the far right come to power.

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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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What Progressives Can Learn from William F. Buckley

Daniel Brook | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

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Buckley's political genius was to broaden the debate by contesting the seemingly uncontestable.

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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 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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Jonah Goldberg to Base! Under Attack by Commie-Nazis!

Chris Kelly | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

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Goldberg noticed that "Nazi" is short for "national socialist," which is scholarship on a level with discovering that there were mid-winter holidays that predated Christmas.

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The Buck Stops Here, Unless You Marry It (Or Were Sired By It, Or Are Its Cousin...)

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.11.2007 | Media

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I read with interest Christopher Buckley's comment this weekend on the "American Idea," as inspired by the Atlantic's 150th anniversary celebration an...

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