William F. Buckley Jr. spent a lifetime trying to make a coherent intellectual case for conservatism but could never articulate what it was supposed to consist of apart from owning the libs.
William F. Buckley
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One Hundred Years of Dictator Worship
For the past century, the American right has fawned over foreign autocrats, from Kaiser Wilhelm to Vladimir Putin.
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Stop Whining About the “Kids Today”
Griping about youth is as old as Socrates and as up-to-date as Gaza protests. The best way to deal with it is to put a premium on civility and to listen to what the youth are saying.
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Birch of a NationÂ
How a group of conspiratorial far-right business tycoons in the 1950s and ‘60s helped lay the groundwork for the MAGA movement decades later.
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Why Rush Limbaugh Failed
The broadcaster traded in bigotry and humor, homophobia and entertainment–for the purpose of building a conservative movement. But like Trump, he could only harness grievance.
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Golden Slumbers: Trumpists Will Never Care About Sex, Lies or Videotape
It might as well not even exist in their minds. Let’s say that somehow, someway, The Tape hit the Internet. Explicit footage of Donald Trump in a Moscow hotel room in the fall of 2013, whooping it up as Russian escorts got their freak on in a most unsanitary manner. Imagine seeing Trump, the leader […]
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Are Mona Charen and Michael Steele “Woke” Now? No.
They’re probably shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here, too. It’s tough to have sympathy for ultraconservative syndicated columnist Mona Charen (whose columns could knock an insomniac out) in the wake of the rude treatment she received from the cretins at CPAC this weekend, when she condemned Donald Trump’s disrespectful […]
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“The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them”
About thirty years ago, the Long Island Regional Poison Control Center ran a semi-famous ad campaign encouraging children not to treat prescription medicine as candy. The spot featured blue pills singing the following: This is serious! We could make you delirious! You should have a healthy fear of us– Too much of us is dangerous! […]
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George Will Comes to Grips With Conservatism’s ‘Scowling Primitives’
Conservatism was always about raising an army of vulgarians to serve the interests of a new conservative elite.
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From All Class to Jackass
The psychological shock progressives felt on November 8 will be minor compared to the shock they will feel on January 20. Not since Bill Clinton turned the White House over to George W. Bush has their been such a disparity in terms of decency and dignity between an outgoing and incoming President. They may play […]
