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…
The American Spectator founder R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., has a new book coming out next month. It’s called How Do We Get Out of Here?: Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at The American Spectator—From Bobby Kennedy to Donald…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…