William F. Buckley Jr. Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Sep 26, 2022

One hundred years ago this month, just four years after the end of World War I, the magazine Foreign Affairs made its debut. It is the journal of the American foreign policy establishment, published by the Council on Foreign Relations….

by | Aug 3, 2022

Scott McKay, a columnist here at The American Spectator, recently released The Revivalist Manifesto: How Patriots Can Win the Next American Era. After receiving the manuscript, I reached out to Scott with some questions about the book, whither conservatives, and…

by | Jul 29, 2022

Thank you, Michael, for responding so quickly and so candidly. My thoughts are these: • Let’s agree to disagree about what constitutes a belittling comment. When you call National Review, the centerpiece of William F. Buckley’s legacy, “a joke,” I…

by | Jul 28, 2022

As I, along with Sohrab Ahmari and Michael Anton (and I don’t mind being put in that category), was called out this week in these pages by the venerable Neal B. Freeman of National Review fame, and as Mr. Freeman…

by | Jul 27, 2022

For the record, contra Neal B. Freeman’s assertion, I did not make, and to the best of my recollection have never made, “belittling remarks” about William F. Buckley, Jr. As it happens, two of my teachers — Harry V. Jaffa and…

by | Jul 26, 2022

TAS: So, this time you’re interviewing yourself? NBF: I’ve been told that I’m the only person still living who worked closely with William F. Buckley, Jr., in his prime. A firsthand account might be useful. TAS: Why now? NBF: The…

by | Jul 3, 2022

There has been much ado about last week’s Fox News poll showing pride in America at an all-time low, only 39 percent, right before the Fourth of July — and astonishingly after Juneteenth. Many media brains have given their explanations…

by | May 5, 2022

Sometimes it’s exhausting being a conservative. It’s other conservatives who are exhausting. Perhaps it’s the legacy of the founders of the movement. William F. Buckley, for example, was an incurable pessimist who often found himself dumbfounded at the successful progression…

by | Mar 24, 2022

We’ll start this off with a YouTube video. It’s a radio segment from an appearance I had on Dan Proft’s morning show Thursday on AM 560 The Answer in Chicago. Proft had me on to talk about Tuesday’s column in…

by | Nov 13, 2021

I was lucky enough to see the beginnings of modern American conservatism in New York after a visit to my university by the new movement’s prime mover William F. Buckley Jr. — and a bit later by becoming mesmerized by…

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