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The Big Story: The passing of William F. Buckley Jr.
Villain or hero? Erudite political thinker or haughty enabler of goofballs such as GW Bush?
The death of conservative pioneer William F. Buckley gives us a chance in hindsight to examine what his life and ideological pursuits wrought in this nation. As a sometimes reader of the National Review, the journal he founded, I found that Buckley’s brand of conservatism wasn’t as wrongheaded as the many off-shoots that followed, most notably the neo-Platonists that pulled Bush’s strings.
Yet still, Buckley had a lot to do with the ascent of Ronald Reagan and certainly many of the bad conservative things going on today were similarly enabled by Reagan’s term in office and longlasting effect within the GOP. I view Buckley’s conservative movement as an example of the law of unintended consequences.
Some links:
His death marks the end of conservatism.
HuffPo: “a gentleness of spirit and a boyish charm”
Remembering Buckley vs. Vidal
Slate: He outlived the very movement that he started.
Tavis Smiley talks with Garry Wills about WFB.
A liberal calls Buckley “my role model”
So where do you come down on the legacy of William F. Buckley Jr.?
