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 ...

William F. Buckley Jr., 1925-2008, masterminded a conservative, Catholic challenge to selective liberal dogmas. His fame exceeded his intellectual depth and principles. He knew what he was against ...

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.

Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. prepares to testify before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee in 1970. (Charles P. Gorry/AP) CAMDEN, S.C. — In breaking news this week, former New York Times ...

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 ...

In 1951, William F. Buckley Jr., aged 25, published his incendiary “God and Man at Yale,” targeting his alma mater — he’d graduated the previous year, garlanded with academic honors and ...

For decades, William F. Buckley Jr. was a one-of-a-kind character: an author and columnist, and a celebrity intellectual. He hosted a TV debate show, "Firing Line," and was often a guest on late ...

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.