Article: HOMAGE TO A CIVIL CONSERVATIVE.(Politics)(William F. Buckley, Jr. )(In memoriam)

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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