William F. Buckley Jr

Cockburn’s Diary

Can we get RealClear?

Plus: New York mag gets Maced and a Bill Buckley book bash

Cockburn

Who was William F. Buckley Jr., really?

This book, apparently 20 years in the making, is the product of immense learning and shows a rare familiarity with its subject and his times

Christopher Sandford

The classroom panopticon

America’s elite has been cowardly and conformist for too long, with effects that are only too obvious

Daniel McCarthy

The rise of the popcons

Rejecting populism led the post-Reagan GOP to defeat and disaster

Daniel McCarthy

Theater

Baldwin and Buckley clash on the New York stage

The play succeeds in affirming a certain anti-liberalism

Robert S. Erickson