After the Republicans held their lively first debate, you heard people saying what they always say nowadays — that our media-driven political discourse has become shallow and petty, even clownish.

For better or for worse, we’ll never again see television quite like that documented in the compelling “Best of Enemies,” which returns us to the summer of 1968 and the historic series of televised ...

With the Republican National Convention in the rear-view mirror and the Democratic National Convention a couple of weeks away, now seems like an opportune moment to revisit “Best of Enemies: Buckley ...

William F Buckley Jr was, above all else, a debater. He’s perhaps best known today for jousting with the liberal writer Gore Vidal in 1968 during the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.

Gore Vidal (1925-2012) is one of those rare but regularly appearing types on the U.S. literary landscape who tried to make a wholesome contribution to the life of the nation, but having a classicist's ...