For decades, William F. Buckley Jr. was a one-of-a-kind character: an author and columnist, and a celebrity intellectual. He hosted a TV debate show, "Firing Line," and was often a guest on late night ...

The June issue of The Atlantic features an excerpt from Sam Tanenhaus’s long-awaited biography of the conservative intellectual and polemicist William F. Buckley Jr. That book—Buckley: The Life and ...

John J. Miller is joined by Lawrence Perelman to discuss his new book, American Impresario: William F. Buckley, Jr., and the Elements of American Character. John J. Miller signs off. John J. Miller is ...

NEW YORK -- When I was in college, William F. Buckley Jr. wrote a book called "Overdrive," in which he described his glamorous lifestyle. Since I was young and a smart-aleck, I wrote a parody of it ...

What would William F. Buckley Jr. have made of the presidencies of Donald J. Trump? That’s the inevitable question after poring over Sam Tanenhaus’s forthcoming biography of the man who did so much to ...

William F. Buckley, Jr., who died yesterday at 82, was the intellectual godfather of the modern conservative movement, standing “athwart history” and driving the movement to victory. In his books, his ...

One night in early 1962, William F. Buckley was Jack Paar’s guest on The Tonight Show. At 36, Buckley had been an infant phenom, writing the book God and Man at Yale (he was pro-God, anti-Yale) and an ...

CAMDEN, S.C. — In breaking news this week, former New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus finally finished his authorized biography of William F. Buckley Jr. It took him only about 25 years to ...

Joining us now from New York is Sam Tanenhaus, who is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and the Weekend Review section. He's working on a biography of William F. Buckley. Welcome to the ...