B efore Charlie Kirk and Christopher F. Rufo, there was William F. Buckley Jr., a conservative polemicist with a mellifluous voice, impish grin, and instinct for the jugular. Buckley, who died in ...

Did William F. Buckley pave the way for Trump? While a new Buckley biography by Sam Tanenhaus suggests some parallels between the ideologue of Reagan Republicanism and its disrupter, they are from ...

Join AEI’s Matthew Continetti, Jonah Goldberg, Yuval Levin, and Ramesh Ponnuru as they discuss William F. Buckley Jr.’s legacy and American conservatism’s past, present, and future.

William F. Buckley Jr. in his Manhattan office, 1965. Photo: Sam Falk/The New York Times Sam Tanenhaus is the author of a superb biography of the onetime communist mole and later conservative ...

When William F. Buckley Jr. died in 2008, the United States lost its most articulate champion of conservative ideas. Over the course of a 60-year career in the public eye, Buckley did just about ...

This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. Cullen Murphy: William F. Buckley Jr. died in 2008. Two generations of Americans have no real firsthand memories of him, and probably an ...

William F. Buckley Jr. in his office at 150W. 35th Street, ... William F. Buckley in a radio studio in New York during a debate when he was a candidate for city mayor in 1965.

Cullen Murphy: William F. Buckley Jr. died in 2008. Two generations of Americans have no real firsthand memories of him, and probably an even larger number don’t fully appreciate the role he ...