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...magazine lives by its personality. The personality of National Review remains, to the best of my perception, as Bill Buckley established it:  a broad-minded and literate conservative magazine with a strong line on national defense and a Catholic...
...had joined the chorus to redo the North America Free Trade Agreement, even though he did vote for the trade pact in 1993… Bill Buckley wrote these words about 50 years ago, but they seem like timely advice for conservatives today, don’t they? Private...
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Earlier this week
...York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus and an oral history by former Washington Post gossip columnist Lloyd Grove. Bill Buckley’s 55th book, The Reagan I Knew, which he was close to finishing when he died, has just been published by Basic Books. A...
...in one of the worst-performing businesses outside of American auto-manufacturing or investment banking. We’re not complaining. Bill Buckley always said NR existed to make a point and not a profit. We’re not here for our shareholders (we don’t have any)...
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...Matter Anymore?" a question that Prof. McInerny answered in the affirmative. I've always been taught that the genius of Bill Buckley, among other conservatives following Goldwater, was to unite social conservatives, national defense conservatives,...
...of my generation (b. 1960), I came of age when there was a vibrancy and excitement for the works of authors such as Bill Buckley, Russell Kirk, Frederick Hayek, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Henry Hazlitt, Hadley Arkes, and George Gilder. Our political...
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