Where to begin? Where would modern American conservatism be without William F. Buckley Jr.? Born on Nov. 24, 1925, the precocious young man gained national attention by attacking his alma mater in his first book, God and Man at Yale….
National Review published a blog post this week titled “The Feminism Phantasm.” The post takes aim at a new wave of right-wing antifeminist rhetoric — some of which goes so far as to blame civilizational decline on women gaining the right…
Faithful Catholics have been saddened by the allegations — most recently suggested by Vice President JD Vance — that their Church has been complicit in creating the humanitarian crisis at the border. Vance pointed out that the Catholic Church has…
The year 2025 represents a pivotal moment for those of us on the political right. President Donald Trump enters his second term as the 47th President of the United States with control of both chambers of Congress and a mandate for…
National Review was once the nation’s premier conservative journal of opinion. The brainchild of William F. Buckley, Jr, the magazine featured the writing of modern conservatism’s first team: James Burnham, Russell Kirk, Whittaker Chambers, Frank Meyer, Willmoore Kendall, William Rusher,…
James Burnham: An Intellectual Biography By David T. Byrne (Northern Illinois University Press, 256 pages, $33.95) “Only by renouncing all ideology can we begin to see the world and man.” So wrote James Burnham in a 1963 edition of The…
I never used to think of myself as old. That’s changing. I was just a kid when Jimmy Carter was president. I hadn’t quite hit my 10th birthday when the jihadist lunatics in Iran overran our embassy in Tehran and…
PBS’s The Incomparable Mr. Buckley is in many ways a favorable treatment of the founding father of modern conservatism, William F. Buckley Jr. The program explores Buckley’s many fine personal qualities and professional talents and tells the story of his…
PBS premiered “The Incomparable Mr. Buckley” coincidentally on the same day that I visited Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library to explore William F. Buckley Jr.’s correspondence. The epistolary Buckley encountered Friday morning clashed as much as he meshed with the…
