Conservatism Under the Elms

Peter Viereck, New York Times, November 4, 1951.

Excerpt:

William Buckley, Yale ’50 and as a senior the able editor of The Yale Daily News, has written a book that challenges political, religious and educational liberalism. Nominally his book is about education at Yale. Actually, it is about American politics.

How right he is (and likewise John Chamberlain in his well-written preface) to insist that man has a moral nature, that statism threatens it, that freedom depends on the traditional value-code of the West and that unmoral materialism results in a suicidal tolerance debunking all values as equally “relative.”

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