We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. William F. Buckley (1925-2008), founder of the National Review and host of the TV debate show "Firing Line," was a ...

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 ...

William F. Buckley Jr., 1925-2008, masterminded a conservative, Catholic challenge to selective liberal dogmas. His fame exceeded his intellectual depth and principles. He knew what he was against ...

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 ...

B efore Charlie Kirk and Christopher F. Rufo, there was William F. Buckley Jr., a conservative polemicist with a mellifluous voice, impish grin, and instinct for the jugular. Buckley, who died in 2008 ...

Bruce Fein’s July 11 op-ed, “William F. Buckley was gifted but no history-maker,” attacking Buckley’s intellectual bona fides and significance, leaves questions about Fein’s intellectual bona fides ...

What was it about Buckley that made him so attractive to liberals—and what was it about liberals that caused them to be attracted to conservative figures like Buckley in the first place? William F.

William F. Buckley (1925-2008), founder of the National Review and host of the TV debate show "Firing Line," was a leading political commentator who catalyzed America's conservative movement with his ...