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Article: HOMAGE TO A CIVIL CONSERVATIVE.(Politics)(William F. Buckley, Jr. )(In memoriam)
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- March 10, 2008
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Buckley knew politics is the realm of ideas, not just tactics. It's a lesson these two writers--one from the left, the other the right--say we ought to remember
Praise From an Unlikely Corner
It's not easy for a committed liberal to admire an archconservative like William F. Buckley Jr., but perhaps it's easier than you might imagine at first. Sure, it's not hard to find plenty to denounce, reject and object to. Buckley never did retract the support and admiration he expressed for Joe McCarthy's witch hunts in the 1950s. And while he ceased to argue that Africans will be ready to run their own affairs "when they stop eating each other," neither he nor ...
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Article: BUCKLEY TO CEDE CONTROL OF NATIONAL REVIEW
United Press International;
June 29, 2004 ;
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... ... International 06-29-2004 Buckley to cede control of National Review NEW YORK, Jun 29 ... author William F. Buckley, Jr., said he ... his interest in National Review, a magazine he ... conservatism. Buckley, the erudite columnist ...
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