William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008)
Keith_Indy on Feb 27 2008 at 10:42 am | Filed under: Domestic Politics, History, Keith's Page, Society
I remember him most for his debates on the Firing Line in the 70’s. His style, full of respect and grace are what I’ll remember him by.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTE4NGRlOGM1NmYxYjdmNjk1MjliOTE2MTYxOWZkZjc=
I’m devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder William F. Buckley Jr., died overnight in his study in Stamford, Connecticut.
After year of illness, he died while at work; if he had been given a choice on how to depart this world, I suspect that would have been exactly it. At home, still devoted to the war of ideas.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/02/27/breaking-william-f-buckley-dies-at-82/
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Wow, somehow it is hard to believe. It seemed as if he was just part of the natural order of things.
Buckley made Ronald Reagan possible. Hell, he made modern American conservatism possible. Before he came along, Burkean conservatism in America was all but extinct, its elite having come under the sway of a largely paranoid reactionism after years of finding itself bound up between the success of New Deal socialism at home and international communism abroad. Buckley and National Review crashed the conservative party in the fifties and reminded everyone, forcefully, seriously, and with wit and elan, that American conservatism was about conserving and expanding freedom, and not merely anti-communism. It’s really a shame he had to leave us precisely when we find ourselves needing more William F. Buckleys.
There’s a great remembrance at This Recording, a cultural/music blog:
http://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/in-which-he-is-no-longer-with-us-now/
Music blogs are generally so reliably (offhandedly and reflexively) lefty, I was shocked to see it. I probably need to bookmark that site.