Books
McCarthy and His Enemies
– With L. Brent Bozell, Regnery Publishing, 1954.Summary: An study of the record and purpose of the controversial Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
The Committee and Its Critics: A Calm Review of the House Committee on Un-American Activities
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “McCarthyism: Past, Present, Future”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 16, 1966, uploaded to YouTube on June 2, 2010.Guest: Leo Cherne Summary: Mr. Buckley seeks, with his old friend and adversary Mr. Cherne, to explore, as he puts it, why Joseph McCarthy’s “oversimplifications were judged to… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “LBJ and the Intellectuals”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 12, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2010.Guest: Hans Joachim Morgenthau. Summary: A rich discussion of our political culture, starting with the Johnson administration’s confused objectives in Vietnam (Morgenthau: “Does… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Academic Freedom and Berkeley”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 16, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2010.Guest: Harold Taylor Summary: We eventually get to Berkeley–where the Free Speech Movement and associated radicalisms had completely broken down academic discipline–but before… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “LBJ and Vietnam”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 6, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2010.Guests: Vance Hartke and Dickerman Williams Summary: As Buckley introduces him, Senator Hartke “is perhaps best known, at this point in his career, as one of the leaders in the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Do We Have Anything Left to Fear from Socialism?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 9, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on February 23, 2011.Guest: Sidney Hook Summary: Mr. Hook answers the title question, as he answers every question, forthrightly: “Well, that depends upon what you mean by socialism. In one sense there… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “How to Protest”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 1, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Dwight Macdonald Summary: Mr. Macdonald had recently been an organizer of the “Step Out Movement”–that is, to step out of a hall where Vice President Humphrey would… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Decline of Anti-Communism”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 29, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Fred Schwarz Summary: Buckley introduces his guest as a full-time anti-Communist who “has never made it easy for his critics. He is infuriatingly sober and . . . he has shown… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “A Foreign Policy for the GOP”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 11, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on May 7, 2010.Guest: Charles Percy Summary: Senator Percy is a bit given to the stump-speech mode (“I truly believe that we will fight Communism just as effectively, if not more so, [by not]… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Philby and Treason”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on February 26, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Rebecca West Summary: Dame Rebecca, who had recently published The New Meaning of Treason, was invited on Firing Line to discuss Kim Philby and his spectacular defection to the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Socialist Workers’ Party and American Politics”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 10, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on February 11, 2011.Guests: Fred Halstead, Paul Boutelle Summary: WFB starts off by reminding us that the Socialist Workers are “the principal political heirs of Leon Trotsky in this country,” and… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Cold War”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 23, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on February 9, 2011.Guest: Zbigniew Brzezinski Summary: A splendid discussion of the Cold War with a man whose views are informed by his Polish upbringing, his academic studies, and his experience at the… More
Odyssey of a Friend: Letters to William F.Buckley Jr. 1954-1961
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.The Governor Listeth: A Book of Inspired Political Revelations
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970.Inveighing We Will Go
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972.Summary: This is the beloved 1972 collection of Bill Buckley’s then-most-recent columns, articles, and so much more, captured at the height of his cultural power and influence. From… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Should the United States Disarm?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 10, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Les Aspin Summary: Rep. Les Aspin had been, as Mr. Buckley reminds us, “one of Secretary McNamara’s whiz kids in the Pentagon,” and was now one of the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Intellectual’s Responsibilities in a Totalitarian Age”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on February 5, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Stephen Spender Summary: Stephen Spender had spent the Thirties, as Mr. Buckley puts it, “dancing along the precipice, attempting at once literary integrity and Communist… More
A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Human Rights in Vietnam”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 6, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on November 11, 2011.Guests: Joan Baez and Ginetta Sagan Summary: Miss Baez had just taken out a full-page ad calling on Hanoi to stop its imperialism and its torture of political prisoners; 88 of her old… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Do We Need a Foreign Policy Doctrine?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 15, 1981, uploaded to YouTube on May 7, 2010.Guest: George Ball Summary: Mr. Ball is a stern critic of the Reagan Administration, which he sees as viewing the Soviet Union as “the Antichrist threatening civilization with its… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Question of Namibia”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 17, 1981, uploaded to YouTube on May 7, 2010.Guests: Peter Kalangula; Aryeh Neier Summary: Father Kalangula’s organization in South West Africa (a/k/a Namibia) had won an internationally observed democratic election against the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Human Rights, Foreign Policy, and Ronald Reagan”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 16, 1986, uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2015.Guest: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Summary: An amazingly good-tempered show on the Reagan Administration’s policies, human rights, and foreign policy given that there was a time when… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Three Young Latin Americans Wish to Be Heard”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 1, 1987, uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2015.Guests: Juan F. Ramirez Arguello, Antonio Rivera, J.T. Gonzales Brito, Christopher Hitchens Summary: Our three guests are engaging but not completely fluent in English. The result is some… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “New Insights on the Russian Revolution”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on December 13, 1990, uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2015.Guest: Richard Pipes Summary: A gripping look at the Soviet Union, with Richard Pipes, a man who has spent all his adult life studying it. Pipes: “There are signs that the right-wing… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley “Looking Back on Senator Joe McCarthy with Kramer and Navasky”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 29, 1999, uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2015.Guests: Hilton Kramer, Victor S. Navasky Summary: Mr. Buckley had just published “The Redhunter,” a novel based on the life of Joe McCarthy (who had also been the subject of his… More
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
– Wiley, John & Sons, 2004.Summary: The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the turning point in the struggle against Communism in Eastern Europe. In The Fall of the Berlin Wall, renowned author and… More
The Reagan I Knew
– Basic Books, 2008.Summary: In The Regan I Knew, the late William F. Buckley Jr. offers a reminiscence of thirty years of friendship with the man who brought the American conservative movement out of the… More
Foreword to The Fall of the Berlin Wall
– Henry A. Kissinger, in William F. Buckley, The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Wiley, John & Sons, 2004. Posted to HenryAKissinger.com, October 5, 2009.Excerpt: Bill Buckley was one of the most remarkable men of our time. Over fifty years ago, barely out of college, he rejected conventional wisdom and founded a magazine, National Review,… More
Essays
McCarthy and His Enemies
– With L. Brent Bozell, Regnery Publishing, 1954.Summary: An study of the record and purpose of the controversial Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
The Committee and Its Critics: A Calm Review of the House Committee on Un-American Activities
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “McCarthyism: Past, Present, Future”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 16, 1966, uploaded to YouTube on June 2, 2010.Guest: Leo Cherne Summary: Mr. Buckley seeks, with his old friend and adversary Mr. Cherne, to explore, as he puts it, why Joseph McCarthy’s “oversimplifications were judged to… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “LBJ and the Intellectuals”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 12, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2010.Guest: Hans Joachim Morgenthau. Summary: A rich discussion of our political culture, starting with the Johnson administration’s confused objectives in Vietnam (Morgenthau: “Does… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Academic Freedom and Berkeley”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 16, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2010.Guest: Harold Taylor Summary: We eventually get to Berkeley–where the Free Speech Movement and associated radicalisms had completely broken down academic discipline–but before… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “LBJ and Vietnam”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 6, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2010.Guests: Vance Hartke and Dickerman Williams Summary: As Buckley introduces him, Senator Hartke “is perhaps best known, at this point in his career, as one of the leaders in the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Do We Have Anything Left to Fear from Socialism?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 9, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on February 23, 2011.Guest: Sidney Hook Summary: Mr. Hook answers the title question, as he answers every question, forthrightly: “Well, that depends upon what you mean by socialism. In one sense there… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “How to Protest”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 1, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Dwight Macdonald Summary: Mr. Macdonald had recently been an organizer of the “Step Out Movement”–that is, to step out of a hall where Vice President Humphrey would… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Decline of Anti-Communism”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 29, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Fred Schwarz Summary: Buckley introduces his guest as a full-time anti-Communist who “has never made it easy for his critics. He is infuriatingly sober and . . . he has shown… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “A Foreign Policy for the GOP”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 11, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on May 7, 2010.Guest: Charles Percy Summary: Senator Percy is a bit given to the stump-speech mode (“I truly believe that we will fight Communism just as effectively, if not more so, [by not]… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Philby and Treason”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on February 26, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Rebecca West Summary: Dame Rebecca, who had recently published The New Meaning of Treason, was invited on Firing Line to discuss Kim Philby and his spectacular defection to the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Socialist Workers’ Party and American Politics”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 10, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on February 11, 2011.Guests: Fred Halstead, Paul Boutelle Summary: WFB starts off by reminding us that the Socialist Workers are “the principal political heirs of Leon Trotsky in this country,” and… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Cold War”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 23, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on February 9, 2011.Guest: Zbigniew Brzezinski Summary: A splendid discussion of the Cold War with a man whose views are informed by his Polish upbringing, his academic studies, and his experience at the… More
Odyssey of a Friend: Letters to William F.Buckley Jr. 1954-1961
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.The Governor Listeth: A Book of Inspired Political Revelations
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970.Inveighing We Will Go
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972.Summary: This is the beloved 1972 collection of Bill Buckley’s then-most-recent columns, articles, and so much more, captured at the height of his cultural power and influence. From… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Should the United States Disarm?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 10, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Les Aspin Summary: Rep. Les Aspin had been, as Mr. Buckley reminds us, “one of Secretary McNamara’s whiz kids in the Pentagon,” and was now one of the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Intellectual’s Responsibilities in a Totalitarian Age”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on February 5, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Stephen Spender Summary: Stephen Spender had spent the Thirties, as Mr. Buckley puts it, “dancing along the precipice, attempting at once literary integrity and Communist… More
A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Human Rights in Vietnam”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 6, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on November 11, 2011.Guests: Joan Baez and Ginetta Sagan Summary: Miss Baez had just taken out a full-page ad calling on Hanoi to stop its imperialism and its torture of political prisoners; 88 of her old… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Do We Need a Foreign Policy Doctrine?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 15, 1981, uploaded to YouTube on May 7, 2010.Guest: George Ball Summary: Mr. Ball is a stern critic of the Reagan Administration, which he sees as viewing the Soviet Union as “the Antichrist threatening civilization with its… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Question of Namibia”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 17, 1981, uploaded to YouTube on May 7, 2010.Guests: Peter Kalangula; Aryeh Neier Summary: Father Kalangula’s organization in South West Africa (a/k/a Namibia) had won an internationally observed democratic election against the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Human Rights, Foreign Policy, and Ronald Reagan”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 16, 1986, uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2015.Guest: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Summary: An amazingly good-tempered show on the Reagan Administration’s policies, human rights, and foreign policy given that there was a time when… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Three Young Latin Americans Wish to Be Heard”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 1, 1987, uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2015.Guests: Juan F. Ramirez Arguello, Antonio Rivera, J.T. Gonzales Brito, Christopher Hitchens Summary: Our three guests are engaging but not completely fluent in English. The result is some… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “New Insights on the Russian Revolution”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on December 13, 1990, uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2015.Guest: Richard Pipes Summary: A gripping look at the Soviet Union, with Richard Pipes, a man who has spent all his adult life studying it. Pipes: “There are signs that the right-wing… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley “Looking Back on Senator Joe McCarthy with Kramer and Navasky”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 29, 1999, uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2015.Guests: Hilton Kramer, Victor S. Navasky Summary: Mr. Buckley had just published “The Redhunter,” a novel based on the life of Joe McCarthy (who had also been the subject of his… More
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
– Wiley, John & Sons, 2004.Summary: The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the turning point in the struggle against Communism in Eastern Europe. In The Fall of the Berlin Wall, renowned author and… More
The Reagan I Knew
– Basic Books, 2008.Summary: In The Regan I Knew, the late William F. Buckley Jr. offers a reminiscence of thirty years of friendship with the man who brought the American conservative movement out of the… More
Foreword to The Fall of the Berlin Wall
– Henry A. Kissinger, in William F. Buckley, The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Wiley, John & Sons, 2004. Posted to HenryAKissinger.com, October 5, 2009.Excerpt: Bill Buckley was one of the most remarkable men of our time. Over fifty years ago, barely out of college, he rejected conventional wisdom and founded a magazine, National Review,… More
Commentary
McCarthy and His Enemies
– With L. Brent Bozell, Regnery Publishing, 1954.Summary: An study of the record and purpose of the controversial Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
The Committee and Its Critics: A Calm Review of the House Committee on Un-American Activities
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “McCarthyism: Past, Present, Future”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 16, 1966, uploaded to YouTube on June 2, 2010.Guest: Leo Cherne Summary: Mr. Buckley seeks, with his old friend and adversary Mr. Cherne, to explore, as he puts it, why Joseph McCarthy’s “oversimplifications were judged to… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “LBJ and the Intellectuals”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 12, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2010.Guest: Hans Joachim Morgenthau. Summary: A rich discussion of our political culture, starting with the Johnson administration’s confused objectives in Vietnam (Morgenthau: “Does… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Academic Freedom and Berkeley”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 16, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2010.Guest: Harold Taylor Summary: We eventually get to Berkeley–where the Free Speech Movement and associated radicalisms had completely broken down academic discipline–but before… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “LBJ and Vietnam”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 6, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2010.Guests: Vance Hartke and Dickerman Williams Summary: As Buckley introduces him, Senator Hartke “is perhaps best known, at this point in his career, as one of the leaders in the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Do We Have Anything Left to Fear from Socialism?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 9, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on February 23, 2011.Guest: Sidney Hook Summary: Mr. Hook answers the title question, as he answers every question, forthrightly: “Well, that depends upon what you mean by socialism. In one sense there… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “How to Protest”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 1, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Dwight Macdonald Summary: Mr. Macdonald had recently been an organizer of the “Step Out Movement”–that is, to step out of a hall where Vice President Humphrey would… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Decline of Anti-Communism”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 29, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Fred Schwarz Summary: Buckley introduces his guest as a full-time anti-Communist who “has never made it easy for his critics. He is infuriatingly sober and . . . he has shown… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “A Foreign Policy for the GOP”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 11, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on May 7, 2010.Guest: Charles Percy Summary: Senator Percy is a bit given to the stump-speech mode (“I truly believe that we will fight Communism just as effectively, if not more so, [by not]… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Philby and Treason”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on February 26, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Rebecca West Summary: Dame Rebecca, who had recently published The New Meaning of Treason, was invited on Firing Line to discuss Kim Philby and his spectacular defection to the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Socialist Workers’ Party and American Politics”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 10, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on February 11, 2011.Guests: Fred Halstead, Paul Boutelle Summary: WFB starts off by reminding us that the Socialist Workers are “the principal political heirs of Leon Trotsky in this country,” and… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Cold War”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 23, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on February 9, 2011.Guest: Zbigniew Brzezinski Summary: A splendid discussion of the Cold War with a man whose views are informed by his Polish upbringing, his academic studies, and his experience at the… More
Odyssey of a Friend: Letters to William F.Buckley Jr. 1954-1961
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.The Governor Listeth: A Book of Inspired Political Revelations
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970.Inveighing We Will Go
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972.Summary: This is the beloved 1972 collection of Bill Buckley’s then-most-recent columns, articles, and so much more, captured at the height of his cultural power and influence. From… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Should the United States Disarm?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 10, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Les Aspin Summary: Rep. Les Aspin had been, as Mr. Buckley reminds us, “one of Secretary McNamara’s whiz kids in the Pentagon,” and was now one of the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Intellectual’s Responsibilities in a Totalitarian Age”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on February 5, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Stephen Spender Summary: Stephen Spender had spent the Thirties, as Mr. Buckley puts it, “dancing along the precipice, attempting at once literary integrity and Communist… More
A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Human Rights in Vietnam”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 6, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on November 11, 2011.Guests: Joan Baez and Ginetta Sagan Summary: Miss Baez had just taken out a full-page ad calling on Hanoi to stop its imperialism and its torture of political prisoners; 88 of her old… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Do We Need a Foreign Policy Doctrine?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 15, 1981, uploaded to YouTube on May 7, 2010.Guest: George Ball Summary: Mr. Ball is a stern critic of the Reagan Administration, which he sees as viewing the Soviet Union as “the Antichrist threatening civilization with its… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Question of Namibia”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 17, 1981, uploaded to YouTube on May 7, 2010.Guests: Peter Kalangula; Aryeh Neier Summary: Father Kalangula’s organization in South West Africa (a/k/a Namibia) had won an internationally observed democratic election against the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Human Rights, Foreign Policy, and Ronald Reagan”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 16, 1986, uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2015.Guest: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Summary: An amazingly good-tempered show on the Reagan Administration’s policies, human rights, and foreign policy given that there was a time when… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Three Young Latin Americans Wish to Be Heard”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 1, 1987, uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2015.Guests: Juan F. Ramirez Arguello, Antonio Rivera, J.T. Gonzales Brito, Christopher Hitchens Summary: Our three guests are engaging but not completely fluent in English. The result is some… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “New Insights on the Russian Revolution”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on December 13, 1990, uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2015.Guest: Richard Pipes Summary: A gripping look at the Soviet Union, with Richard Pipes, a man who has spent all his adult life studying it. Pipes: “There are signs that the right-wing… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley “Looking Back on Senator Joe McCarthy with Kramer and Navasky”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 29, 1999, uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2015.Guests: Hilton Kramer, Victor S. Navasky Summary: Mr. Buckley had just published “The Redhunter,” a novel based on the life of Joe McCarthy (who had also been the subject of his… More
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
– Wiley, John & Sons, 2004.Summary: The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the turning point in the struggle against Communism in Eastern Europe. In The Fall of the Berlin Wall, renowned author and… More
The Reagan I Knew
– Basic Books, 2008.Summary: In The Regan I Knew, the late William F. Buckley Jr. offers a reminiscence of thirty years of friendship with the man who brought the American conservative movement out of the… More
Foreword to The Fall of the Berlin Wall
– Henry A. Kissinger, in William F. Buckley, The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Wiley, John & Sons, 2004. Posted to HenryAKissinger.com, October 5, 2009.Excerpt: Bill Buckley was one of the most remarkable men of our time. Over fifty years ago, barely out of college, he rejected conventional wisdom and founded a magazine, National Review,… More
Multimedia
McCarthy and His Enemies
– With L. Brent Bozell, Regnery Publishing, 1954.Summary: An study of the record and purpose of the controversial Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
The Committee and Its Critics: A Calm Review of the House Committee on Un-American Activities
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “McCarthyism: Past, Present, Future”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 16, 1966, uploaded to YouTube on June 2, 2010.Guest: Leo Cherne Summary: Mr. Buckley seeks, with his old friend and adversary Mr. Cherne, to explore, as he puts it, why Joseph McCarthy’s “oversimplifications were judged to… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “LBJ and the Intellectuals”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 12, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2010.Guest: Hans Joachim Morgenthau. Summary: A rich discussion of our political culture, starting with the Johnson administration’s confused objectives in Vietnam (Morgenthau: “Does… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Academic Freedom and Berkeley”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 16, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2010.Guest: Harold Taylor Summary: We eventually get to Berkeley–where the Free Speech Movement and associated radicalisms had completely broken down academic discipline–but before… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “LBJ and Vietnam”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 6, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2010.Guests: Vance Hartke and Dickerman Williams Summary: As Buckley introduces him, Senator Hartke “is perhaps best known, at this point in his career, as one of the leaders in the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Do We Have Anything Left to Fear from Socialism?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 9, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on February 23, 2011.Guest: Sidney Hook Summary: Mr. Hook answers the title question, as he answers every question, forthrightly: “Well, that depends upon what you mean by socialism. In one sense there… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “How to Protest”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 1, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Dwight Macdonald Summary: Mr. Macdonald had recently been an organizer of the “Step Out Movement”–that is, to step out of a hall where Vice President Humphrey would… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Decline of Anti-Communism”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 29, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Fred Schwarz Summary: Buckley introduces his guest as a full-time anti-Communist who “has never made it easy for his critics. He is infuriatingly sober and . . . he has shown… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “A Foreign Policy for the GOP”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 11, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on May 7, 2010.Guest: Charles Percy Summary: Senator Percy is a bit given to the stump-speech mode (“I truly believe that we will fight Communism just as effectively, if not more so, [by not]… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Philby and Treason”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on February 26, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Rebecca West Summary: Dame Rebecca, who had recently published The New Meaning of Treason, was invited on Firing Line to discuss Kim Philby and his spectacular defection to the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Socialist Workers’ Party and American Politics”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 10, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on February 11, 2011.Guests: Fred Halstead, Paul Boutelle Summary: WFB starts off by reminding us that the Socialist Workers are “the principal political heirs of Leon Trotsky in this country,” and… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Cold War”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 23, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on February 9, 2011.Guest: Zbigniew Brzezinski Summary: A splendid discussion of the Cold War with a man whose views are informed by his Polish upbringing, his academic studies, and his experience at the… More
Odyssey of a Friend: Letters to William F.Buckley Jr. 1954-1961
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.The Governor Listeth: A Book of Inspired Political Revelations
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970.Inveighing We Will Go
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972.Summary: This is the beloved 1972 collection of Bill Buckley’s then-most-recent columns, articles, and so much more, captured at the height of his cultural power and influence. From… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Should the United States Disarm?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 10, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Les Aspin Summary: Rep. Les Aspin had been, as Mr. Buckley reminds us, “one of Secretary McNamara’s whiz kids in the Pentagon,” and was now one of the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Intellectual’s Responsibilities in a Totalitarian Age”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on February 5, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Stephen Spender Summary: Stephen Spender had spent the Thirties, as Mr. Buckley puts it, “dancing along the precipice, attempting at once literary integrity and Communist… More
A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Human Rights in Vietnam”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 6, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on November 11, 2011.Guests: Joan Baez and Ginetta Sagan Summary: Miss Baez had just taken out a full-page ad calling on Hanoi to stop its imperialism and its torture of political prisoners; 88 of her old… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Do We Need a Foreign Policy Doctrine?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 15, 1981, uploaded to YouTube on May 7, 2010.Guest: George Ball Summary: Mr. Ball is a stern critic of the Reagan Administration, which he sees as viewing the Soviet Union as “the Antichrist threatening civilization with its… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Question of Namibia”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 17, 1981, uploaded to YouTube on May 7, 2010.Guests: Peter Kalangula; Aryeh Neier Summary: Father Kalangula’s organization in South West Africa (a/k/a Namibia) had won an internationally observed democratic election against the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Human Rights, Foreign Policy, and Ronald Reagan”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 16, 1986, uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2015.Guest: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Summary: An amazingly good-tempered show on the Reagan Administration’s policies, human rights, and foreign policy given that there was a time when… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Three Young Latin Americans Wish to Be Heard”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 1, 1987, uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2015.Guests: Juan F. Ramirez Arguello, Antonio Rivera, J.T. Gonzales Brito, Christopher Hitchens Summary: Our three guests are engaging but not completely fluent in English. The result is some… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “New Insights on the Russian Revolution”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on December 13, 1990, uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2015.Guest: Richard Pipes Summary: A gripping look at the Soviet Union, with Richard Pipes, a man who has spent all his adult life studying it. Pipes: “There are signs that the right-wing… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley “Looking Back on Senator Joe McCarthy with Kramer and Navasky”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 29, 1999, uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2015.Guests: Hilton Kramer, Victor S. Navasky Summary: Mr. Buckley had just published “The Redhunter,” a novel based on the life of Joe McCarthy (who had also been the subject of his… More
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
– Wiley, John & Sons, 2004.Summary: The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the turning point in the struggle against Communism in Eastern Europe. In The Fall of the Berlin Wall, renowned author and… More
The Reagan I Knew
– Basic Books, 2008.Summary: In The Regan I Knew, the late William F. Buckley Jr. offers a reminiscence of thirty years of friendship with the man who brought the American conservative movement out of the… More
Foreword to The Fall of the Berlin Wall
– Henry A. Kissinger, in William F. Buckley, The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Wiley, John & Sons, 2004. Posted to HenryAKissinger.com, October 5, 2009.Excerpt: Bill Buckley was one of the most remarkable men of our time. Over fifty years ago, barely out of college, he rejected conventional wisdom and founded a magazine, National Review,… More
Teaching
McCarthy and His Enemies
– With L. Brent Bozell, Regnery Publishing, 1954.Summary: An study of the record and purpose of the controversial Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
The Committee and Its Critics: A Calm Review of the House Committee on Un-American Activities
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “McCarthyism: Past, Present, Future”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 16, 1966, uploaded to YouTube on June 2, 2010.Guest: Leo Cherne Summary: Mr. Buckley seeks, with his old friend and adversary Mr. Cherne, to explore, as he puts it, why Joseph McCarthy’s “oversimplifications were judged to… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “LBJ and the Intellectuals”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 12, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2010.Guest: Hans Joachim Morgenthau. Summary: A rich discussion of our political culture, starting with the Johnson administration’s confused objectives in Vietnam (Morgenthau: “Does… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Academic Freedom and Berkeley”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 16, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2010.Guest: Harold Taylor Summary: We eventually get to Berkeley–where the Free Speech Movement and associated radicalisms had completely broken down academic discipline–but before… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “LBJ and Vietnam”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 6, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2010.Guests: Vance Hartke and Dickerman Williams Summary: As Buckley introduces him, Senator Hartke “is perhaps best known, at this point in his career, as one of the leaders in the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Do We Have Anything Left to Fear from Socialism?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on March 9, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on February 23, 2011.Guest: Sidney Hook Summary: Mr. Hook answers the title question, as he answers every question, forthrightly: “Well, that depends upon what you mean by socialism. In one sense there… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “How to Protest”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 1, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Dwight Macdonald Summary: Mr. Macdonald had recently been an organizer of the “Step Out Movement”–that is, to step out of a hall where Vice President Humphrey would… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Decline of Anti-Communism”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 29, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Fred Schwarz Summary: Buckley introduces his guest as a full-time anti-Communist who “has never made it easy for his critics. He is infuriatingly sober and . . . he has shown… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “A Foreign Policy for the GOP”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 11, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on May 7, 2010.Guest: Charles Percy Summary: Senator Percy is a bit given to the stump-speech mode (“I truly believe that we will fight Communism just as effectively, if not more so, [by not]… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Philby and Treason”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on February 26, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Rebecca West Summary: Dame Rebecca, who had recently published The New Meaning of Treason, was invited on Firing Line to discuss Kim Philby and his spectacular defection to the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Socialist Workers’ Party and American Politics”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 10, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on February 11, 2011.Guests: Fred Halstead, Paul Boutelle Summary: WFB starts off by reminding us that the Socialist Workers are “the principal political heirs of Leon Trotsky in this country,” and… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Cold War”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 23, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on February 9, 2011.Guest: Zbigniew Brzezinski Summary: A splendid discussion of the Cold War with a man whose views are informed by his Polish upbringing, his academic studies, and his experience at the… More
Odyssey of a Friend: Letters to William F.Buckley Jr. 1954-1961
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.The Governor Listeth: A Book of Inspired Political Revelations
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970.Inveighing We Will Go
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972.Summary: This is the beloved 1972 collection of Bill Buckley’s then-most-recent columns, articles, and so much more, captured at the height of his cultural power and influence. From… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Should the United States Disarm?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 10, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Les Aspin Summary: Rep. Les Aspin had been, as Mr. Buckley reminds us, “one of Secretary McNamara’s whiz kids in the Pentagon,” and was now one of the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Intellectual’s Responsibilities in a Totalitarian Age”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on February 5, 1975, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Stephen Spender Summary: Stephen Spender had spent the Thirties, as Mr. Buckley puts it, “dancing along the precipice, attempting at once literary integrity and Communist… More
A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts
– G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Human Rights in Vietnam”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on September 6, 1979, uploaded to YouTube on November 11, 2011.Guests: Joan Baez and Ginetta Sagan Summary: Miss Baez had just taken out a full-page ad calling on Hanoi to stop its imperialism and its torture of political prisoners; 88 of her old… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Do We Need a Foreign Policy Doctrine?”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 15, 1981, uploaded to YouTube on May 7, 2010.Guest: George Ball Summary: Mr. Ball is a stern critic of the Reagan Administration, which he sees as viewing the Soviet Union as “the Antichrist threatening civilization with its… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Question of Namibia”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 17, 1981, uploaded to YouTube on May 7, 2010.Guests: Peter Kalangula; Aryeh Neier Summary: Father Kalangula’s organization in South West Africa (a/k/a Namibia) had won an internationally observed democratic election against the… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Human Rights, Foreign Policy, and Ronald Reagan”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 16, 1986, uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2015.Guest: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Summary: An amazingly good-tempered show on the Reagan Administration’s policies, human rights, and foreign policy given that there was a time when… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Three Young Latin Americans Wish to Be Heard”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on October 1, 1987, uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2015.Guests: Juan F. Ramirez Arguello, Antonio Rivera, J.T. Gonzales Brito, Christopher Hitchens Summary: Our three guests are engaging but not completely fluent in English. The result is some… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “New Insights on the Russian Revolution”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on December 13, 1990, uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2015.Guest: Richard Pipes Summary: A gripping look at the Soviet Union, with Richard Pipes, a man who has spent all his adult life studying it. Pipes: “There are signs that the right-wing… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley “Looking Back on Senator Joe McCarthy with Kramer and Navasky”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 29, 1999, uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2015.Guests: Hilton Kramer, Victor S. Navasky Summary: Mr. Buckley had just published “The Redhunter,” a novel based on the life of Joe McCarthy (who had also been the subject of his… More
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
– Wiley, John & Sons, 2004.Summary: The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the turning point in the struggle against Communism in Eastern Europe. In The Fall of the Berlin Wall, renowned author and… More
The Reagan I Knew
– Basic Books, 2008.Summary: In The Regan I Knew, the late William F. Buckley Jr. offers a reminiscence of thirty years of friendship with the man who brought the American conservative movement out of the… More
Foreword to The Fall of the Berlin Wall
– Henry A. Kissinger, in William F. Buckley, The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Wiley, John & Sons, 2004. Posted to HenryAKissinger.com, October 5, 2009.Excerpt: Bill Buckley was one of the most remarkable men of our time. Over fifty years ago, barely out of college, he rejected conventional wisdom and founded a magazine, National Review,… More