The Defense of Freedom & Metaphysics of Fun
I will admit that like most of his friends, I wonder if Bill Buckley’s well-known regard for fun doesn’t get a little out of hand.
I will admit that like most of his friends, I wonder if Bill Buckley’s well-known regard for fun doesn’t get a little out of hand.
Bill Buckley is indescribable. He’s irreplaceable. There will not be another one like him.
In the early months of 1962, there was restiveness in certain political quarters of the right. The concern was primarily the growing strength of the Soviet Union…
Many collections have and will be compiled of the late William F. Buckley Jr.’s writing. Here is a brief and somewhat random starting point…
An exploration of cause and effect.
America has lost one of its finest writers and thinkers.
An oral obituary from John Tierney of The New York Times.
I had the privilege of knowing Bill Buckley for some 40 years. He was a devoted and patriotic American; a remarkably creative and eloquent man of letters…
Buckley defined conservatism as the willingness to “stand athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who do.”
Whenever Bill Buckley was profiled in the media, he was usually pinned firmly to words such as “impish” and “gadfly.”
He changed America, but Bill Buckley remained forever uniquely himself.
Mine is a more personal memory that began with a phone ringing unexpectedly in my Tokyo home around 1977.
To say that Bill Buckley caused a sensation, when he first emerged on the scene with the publication of God and Man at Yale in the spring of 1951, would be an understatement.
He brought conservatism into the mainstream.
Wow, I knew a bit about William F. Buckley but to read all this stuff coming out now gives you a real appreciation for the man.
And to think he came out with God and Man at Yale at age 25. Impressive from the start. Wish I got to hear the guy in person. RIP
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