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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.

Statement of Intention

– National Review, November 19, 1955.
Excerpt: There is, we like to think, solid reason for rejoicing. Prodigious efforts, by many people, are responsible for NATIONAL REVIEW. But since it will be the policy of this magazine to… More

Up from Liberalism

– McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.
Excerpt: I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a… More

The Unmaking of a Mayor

– Viking Press, 1966.
Summary: John V. Lindsay was elected mayor of New York City in 1965. But that year’s mayoral campaign will forever be known as the Buckley campaign. “As a candidate,” Joseph Alsop… More

God, Man, and William F. Buckley

– Larry L. King, Harper's Magazine, March 1967.
Excerpt: We sized each other up like two fighters in mid-ring, Buckley hooking me with a couple of jokes and scoring with an anecdotal right-cross: “When I sent Norman Mailer a copy of my… More

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Wallace Crusade”

– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 24, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.
Guest: George Wallace Summary: Mr. Buckley had sharply criticized Mr. Wallace in print, both for his once-adamant attachment to segregation and for his New Deal statism, and Mr. Wallace… More

Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?

– Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1970.
Summary: If America has been an unsympathetic environment for conservatism, conservatism has, nevertheless, demonstrated an extraordinary tenacity in politics, literature, law, religion,… More

Giving Yale to Connecticut

– Harper's Magazine, November 1977.
Excerpt: The purpose of a Yale education can hardly be to turn out a race of idiots. But one would have thought that was what Yale precisely engages in. Walking out of the Huntington Hotel… More

The Enmity Within

– Nathan Glazer, New York Times, September 27, 1992.
Excerpt: Mr. Buckley’s article was not a consideration of anti-Semitism in general, or in the United States. It was, rather, a consideration of charges of anti-Semitism against some… More

William F. Buckley, Jr. and American Conservatism

– James A. Nuechterlein, Commentary, June 1988.
Excerpt: In 1955, when William F. Buckley, Jr. published the first issue of National Review, the conservatism that he and his journal represented stood, isolated and forlorn, at the very… More

In Search of Anti-Semitism

– Continuum International, 1992.
Summary: A thought-provoking extended essay first published in National Review–along with responses by distinguished commentators–on the the ways anti-Semitism reveals itself… More

Mr. Conservative

– New York Times, May 31, 1998.
Excerpt: There wasn’t much left of the Barry Goldwater I knew when, in 1994, he made his regular appearance at the annual Goldwater Award dinner. That year the prize went to Lady… More

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Goldwater Revisited”

– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 9, 1998, uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2015.
Guest: Barry Goldwater Summary: Senator Goldwater had died at the age of 89, in his beloved Phoenix. Before showing clips from his last Firing Line appearance, Mr. Buckley recalls his old… More

How ‘Firing Line’ Transformed the Battleground

– Laurence Zuckerman, New York Times, December 18, 1999.
Excerpt: Even many of the guests who turned out at the Museum of Broadcasting on Tuesday to pay tribute to William F. Buckley Jr. on the occasion of the taping of the final broadcast of… More

Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography

– Regnery Publishing, 2004.
Summary: Here is a unique collection of fifty years of essays chosen to form an unconventional autobiography and capstone to his remarkable career as the conservative writer par excellence.… More

Future of Conservatism

– Video, C-SPAN, December 9, 2004.
Summary: William F. Buckley, Jr. and his son Christopher Buckley made their first joint stage appearance to consider the future of American conservatism in a mock episode of Firing Line,… More

Tribute to William F. Buckley

– Video, C-SPAN, October 6, 2005.
Summary: On the 50th anniversary of National Review, the magazine’s founder, William F. Buckley, Jr. was honored by President Bush. The president paid tribute to Mr. Buckley and the… More

Athwart History

– Sam Tanenhaus, The New Republic, March 19, 2007.
Excerpt: Although he remains the most eminent conservative in the United States, his face and voice recognized by millions, William F. Buckley, Jr. has all but retired from public life. At… More

Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater

– Basic Books, 2008.
Summary: In Flying High, William F. Buckley Jr. offers his lyrical remembrance of a singular era in American politics, and a tribute to the modern Conservative movement’s first… 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

God and Man at Yale Turns 60

– Peter Berkowitz, Real Clear Politics, November 5, 2011.
Excerpt: Buckley’s critique of academic orthodoxy at Yale was all the more powerful—and all the more baffling to the zealous guardians of Yale’s academic orthodoxy—for his defense… More

Bill Buckley’s Lesson for Today’s Conservatives

– Neal B. Freeman, Wall Street Journal, February 27, 2016.
Excerpt: What did “Firing Line” add to the culture of its day? It became, first, a national megaphone for conservative values. It wasn’t one of dozens of right-leaning talk shows. It… 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.

Statement of Intention

– National Review, November 19, 1955.
Excerpt: There is, we like to think, solid reason for rejoicing. Prodigious efforts, by many people, are responsible for NATIONAL REVIEW. But since it will be the policy of this magazine to… More

Up from Liberalism

– McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.
Excerpt: I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a… More

The Unmaking of a Mayor

– Viking Press, 1966.
Summary: John V. Lindsay was elected mayor of New York City in 1965. But that year’s mayoral campaign will forever be known as the Buckley campaign. “As a candidate,” Joseph Alsop… More

God, Man, and William F. Buckley

– Larry L. King, Harper's Magazine, March 1967.
Excerpt: We sized each other up like two fighters in mid-ring, Buckley hooking me with a couple of jokes and scoring with an anecdotal right-cross: “When I sent Norman Mailer a copy of my… More

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Wallace Crusade”

– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 24, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.
Guest: George Wallace Summary: Mr. Buckley had sharply criticized Mr. Wallace in print, both for his once-adamant attachment to segregation and for his New Deal statism, and Mr. Wallace… More

Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?

– Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1970.
Summary: If America has been an unsympathetic environment for conservatism, conservatism has, nevertheless, demonstrated an extraordinary tenacity in politics, literature, law, religion,… More

Giving Yale to Connecticut

– Harper's Magazine, November 1977.
Excerpt: The purpose of a Yale education can hardly be to turn out a race of idiots. But one would have thought that was what Yale precisely engages in. Walking out of the Huntington Hotel… More

The Enmity Within

– Nathan Glazer, New York Times, September 27, 1992.
Excerpt: Mr. Buckley’s article was not a consideration of anti-Semitism in general, or in the United States. It was, rather, a consideration of charges of anti-Semitism against some… More

William F. Buckley, Jr. and American Conservatism

– James A. Nuechterlein, Commentary, June 1988.
Excerpt: In 1955, when William F. Buckley, Jr. published the first issue of National Review, the conservatism that he and his journal represented stood, isolated and forlorn, at the very… More

In Search of Anti-Semitism

– Continuum International, 1992.
Summary: A thought-provoking extended essay first published in National Review–along with responses by distinguished commentators–on the the ways anti-Semitism reveals itself… More

Mr. Conservative

– New York Times, May 31, 1998.
Excerpt: There wasn’t much left of the Barry Goldwater I knew when, in 1994, he made his regular appearance at the annual Goldwater Award dinner. That year the prize went to Lady… More

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Goldwater Revisited”

– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 9, 1998, uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2015.
Guest: Barry Goldwater Summary: Senator Goldwater had died at the age of 89, in his beloved Phoenix. Before showing clips from his last Firing Line appearance, Mr. Buckley recalls his old… More

How ‘Firing Line’ Transformed the Battleground

– Laurence Zuckerman, New York Times, December 18, 1999.
Excerpt: Even many of the guests who turned out at the Museum of Broadcasting on Tuesday to pay tribute to William F. Buckley Jr. on the occasion of the taping of the final broadcast of… More

Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography

– Regnery Publishing, 2004.
Summary: Here is a unique collection of fifty years of essays chosen to form an unconventional autobiography and capstone to his remarkable career as the conservative writer par excellence.… More

Future of Conservatism

– Video, C-SPAN, December 9, 2004.
Summary: William F. Buckley, Jr. and his son Christopher Buckley made their first joint stage appearance to consider the future of American conservatism in a mock episode of Firing Line,… More

Tribute to William F. Buckley

– Video, C-SPAN, October 6, 2005.
Summary: On the 50th anniversary of National Review, the magazine’s founder, William F. Buckley, Jr. was honored by President Bush. The president paid tribute to Mr. Buckley and the… More

Athwart History

– Sam Tanenhaus, The New Republic, March 19, 2007.
Excerpt: Although he remains the most eminent conservative in the United States, his face and voice recognized by millions, William F. Buckley, Jr. has all but retired from public life. At… More

Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater

– Basic Books, 2008.
Summary: In Flying High, William F. Buckley Jr. offers his lyrical remembrance of a singular era in American politics, and a tribute to the modern Conservative movement’s first… 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

God and Man at Yale Turns 60

– Peter Berkowitz, Real Clear Politics, November 5, 2011.
Excerpt: Buckley’s critique of academic orthodoxy at Yale was all the more powerful—and all the more baffling to the zealous guardians of Yale’s academic orthodoxy—for his defense… More

Bill Buckley’s Lesson for Today’s Conservatives

– Neal B. Freeman, Wall Street Journal, February 27, 2016.
Excerpt: What did “Firing Line” add to the culture of its day? It became, first, a national megaphone for conservative values. It wasn’t one of dozens of right-leaning talk shows. It… 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.

Statement of Intention

– National Review, November 19, 1955.
Excerpt: There is, we like to think, solid reason for rejoicing. Prodigious efforts, by many people, are responsible for NATIONAL REVIEW. But since it will be the policy of this magazine to… More

Up from Liberalism

– McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.
Excerpt: I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a… More

The Unmaking of a Mayor

– Viking Press, 1966.
Summary: John V. Lindsay was elected mayor of New York City in 1965. But that year’s mayoral campaign will forever be known as the Buckley campaign. “As a candidate,” Joseph Alsop… More

God, Man, and William F. Buckley

– Larry L. King, Harper's Magazine, March 1967.
Excerpt: We sized each other up like two fighters in mid-ring, Buckley hooking me with a couple of jokes and scoring with an anecdotal right-cross: “When I sent Norman Mailer a copy of my… More

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Wallace Crusade”

– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 24, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.
Guest: George Wallace Summary: Mr. Buckley had sharply criticized Mr. Wallace in print, both for his once-adamant attachment to segregation and for his New Deal statism, and Mr. Wallace… More

Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?

– Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1970.
Summary: If America has been an unsympathetic environment for conservatism, conservatism has, nevertheless, demonstrated an extraordinary tenacity in politics, literature, law, religion,… More

Giving Yale to Connecticut

– Harper's Magazine, November 1977.
Excerpt: The purpose of a Yale education can hardly be to turn out a race of idiots. But one would have thought that was what Yale precisely engages in. Walking out of the Huntington Hotel… More

The Enmity Within

– Nathan Glazer, New York Times, September 27, 1992.
Excerpt: Mr. Buckley’s article was not a consideration of anti-Semitism in general, or in the United States. It was, rather, a consideration of charges of anti-Semitism against some… More

William F. Buckley, Jr. and American Conservatism

– James A. Nuechterlein, Commentary, June 1988.
Excerpt: In 1955, when William F. Buckley, Jr. published the first issue of National Review, the conservatism that he and his journal represented stood, isolated and forlorn, at the very… More

In Search of Anti-Semitism

– Continuum International, 1992.
Summary: A thought-provoking extended essay first published in National Review–along with responses by distinguished commentators–on the the ways anti-Semitism reveals itself… More

Mr. Conservative

– New York Times, May 31, 1998.
Excerpt: There wasn’t much left of the Barry Goldwater I knew when, in 1994, he made his regular appearance at the annual Goldwater Award dinner. That year the prize went to Lady… More

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Goldwater Revisited”

– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 9, 1998, uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2015.
Guest: Barry Goldwater Summary: Senator Goldwater had died at the age of 89, in his beloved Phoenix. Before showing clips from his last Firing Line appearance, Mr. Buckley recalls his old… More

How ‘Firing Line’ Transformed the Battleground

– Laurence Zuckerman, New York Times, December 18, 1999.
Excerpt: Even many of the guests who turned out at the Museum of Broadcasting on Tuesday to pay tribute to William F. Buckley Jr. on the occasion of the taping of the final broadcast of… More

Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography

– Regnery Publishing, 2004.
Summary: Here is a unique collection of fifty years of essays chosen to form an unconventional autobiography and capstone to his remarkable career as the conservative writer par excellence.… More

Future of Conservatism

– Video, C-SPAN, December 9, 2004.
Summary: William F. Buckley, Jr. and his son Christopher Buckley made their first joint stage appearance to consider the future of American conservatism in a mock episode of Firing Line,… More

Tribute to William F. Buckley

– Video, C-SPAN, October 6, 2005.
Summary: On the 50th anniversary of National Review, the magazine’s founder, William F. Buckley, Jr. was honored by President Bush. The president paid tribute to Mr. Buckley and the… More

Athwart History

– Sam Tanenhaus, The New Republic, March 19, 2007.
Excerpt: Although he remains the most eminent conservative in the United States, his face and voice recognized by millions, William F. Buckley, Jr. has all but retired from public life. At… More

Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater

– Basic Books, 2008.
Summary: In Flying High, William F. Buckley Jr. offers his lyrical remembrance of a singular era in American politics, and a tribute to the modern Conservative movement’s first… 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

God and Man at Yale Turns 60

– Peter Berkowitz, Real Clear Politics, November 5, 2011.
Excerpt: Buckley’s critique of academic orthodoxy at Yale was all the more powerful—and all the more baffling to the zealous guardians of Yale’s academic orthodoxy—for his defense… More

Bill Buckley’s Lesson for Today’s Conservatives

– Neal B. Freeman, Wall Street Journal, February 27, 2016.
Excerpt: What did “Firing Line” add to the culture of its day? It became, first, a national megaphone for conservative values. It wasn’t one of dozens of right-leaning talk shows. It… 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.

Statement of Intention

– National Review, November 19, 1955.
Excerpt: There is, we like to think, solid reason for rejoicing. Prodigious efforts, by many people, are responsible for NATIONAL REVIEW. But since it will be the policy of this magazine to… More

Up from Liberalism

– McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.
Excerpt: I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a… More

The Unmaking of a Mayor

– Viking Press, 1966.
Summary: John V. Lindsay was elected mayor of New York City in 1965. But that year’s mayoral campaign will forever be known as the Buckley campaign. “As a candidate,” Joseph Alsop… More

God, Man, and William F. Buckley

– Larry L. King, Harper's Magazine, March 1967.
Excerpt: We sized each other up like two fighters in mid-ring, Buckley hooking me with a couple of jokes and scoring with an anecdotal right-cross: “When I sent Norman Mailer a copy of my… More

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Wallace Crusade”

– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 24, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.
Guest: George Wallace Summary: Mr. Buckley had sharply criticized Mr. Wallace in print, both for his once-adamant attachment to segregation and for his New Deal statism, and Mr. Wallace… More

Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?

– Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1970.
Summary: If America has been an unsympathetic environment for conservatism, conservatism has, nevertheless, demonstrated an extraordinary tenacity in politics, literature, law, religion,… More

Giving Yale to Connecticut

– Harper's Magazine, November 1977.
Excerpt: The purpose of a Yale education can hardly be to turn out a race of idiots. But one would have thought that was what Yale precisely engages in. Walking out of the Huntington Hotel… More

The Enmity Within

– Nathan Glazer, New York Times, September 27, 1992.
Excerpt: Mr. Buckley’s article was not a consideration of anti-Semitism in general, or in the United States. It was, rather, a consideration of charges of anti-Semitism against some… More

William F. Buckley, Jr. and American Conservatism

– James A. Nuechterlein, Commentary, June 1988.
Excerpt: In 1955, when William F. Buckley, Jr. published the first issue of National Review, the conservatism that he and his journal represented stood, isolated and forlorn, at the very… More

In Search of Anti-Semitism

– Continuum International, 1992.
Summary: A thought-provoking extended essay first published in National Review–along with responses by distinguished commentators–on the the ways anti-Semitism reveals itself… More

Mr. Conservative

– New York Times, May 31, 1998.
Excerpt: There wasn’t much left of the Barry Goldwater I knew when, in 1994, he made his regular appearance at the annual Goldwater Award dinner. That year the prize went to Lady… More

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Goldwater Revisited”

– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 9, 1998, uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2015.
Guest: Barry Goldwater Summary: Senator Goldwater had died at the age of 89, in his beloved Phoenix. Before showing clips from his last Firing Line appearance, Mr. Buckley recalls his old… More

How ‘Firing Line’ Transformed the Battleground

– Laurence Zuckerman, New York Times, December 18, 1999.
Excerpt: Even many of the guests who turned out at the Museum of Broadcasting on Tuesday to pay tribute to William F. Buckley Jr. on the occasion of the taping of the final broadcast of… More

Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography

– Regnery Publishing, 2004.
Summary: Here is a unique collection of fifty years of essays chosen to form an unconventional autobiography and capstone to his remarkable career as the conservative writer par excellence.… More

Future of Conservatism

– Video, C-SPAN, December 9, 2004.
Summary: William F. Buckley, Jr. and his son Christopher Buckley made their first joint stage appearance to consider the future of American conservatism in a mock episode of Firing Line,… More

Tribute to William F. Buckley

– Video, C-SPAN, October 6, 2005.
Summary: On the 50th anniversary of National Review, the magazine’s founder, William F. Buckley, Jr. was honored by President Bush. The president paid tribute to Mr. Buckley and the… More

Athwart History

– Sam Tanenhaus, The New Republic, March 19, 2007.
Excerpt: Although he remains the most eminent conservative in the United States, his face and voice recognized by millions, William F. Buckley, Jr. has all but retired from public life. At… More

Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater

– Basic Books, 2008.
Summary: In Flying High, William F. Buckley Jr. offers his lyrical remembrance of a singular era in American politics, and a tribute to the modern Conservative movement’s first… 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

God and Man at Yale Turns 60

– Peter Berkowitz, Real Clear Politics, November 5, 2011.
Excerpt: Buckley’s critique of academic orthodoxy at Yale was all the more powerful—and all the more baffling to the zealous guardians of Yale’s academic orthodoxy—for his defense… More

Bill Buckley’s Lesson for Today’s Conservatives

– Neal B. Freeman, Wall Street Journal, February 27, 2016.
Excerpt: What did “Firing Line” add to the culture of its day? It became, first, a national megaphone for conservative values. It wasn’t one of dozens of right-leaning talk shows. It… 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.

Statement of Intention

– National Review, November 19, 1955.
Excerpt: There is, we like to think, solid reason for rejoicing. Prodigious efforts, by many people, are responsible for NATIONAL REVIEW. But since it will be the policy of this magazine to… More

Up from Liberalism

– McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.
Excerpt: I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a… More

The Unmaking of a Mayor

– Viking Press, 1966.
Summary: John V. Lindsay was elected mayor of New York City in 1965. But that year’s mayoral campaign will forever be known as the Buckley campaign. “As a candidate,” Joseph Alsop… More

God, Man, and William F. Buckley

– Larry L. King, Harper's Magazine, March 1967.
Excerpt: We sized each other up like two fighters in mid-ring, Buckley hooking me with a couple of jokes and scoring with an anecdotal right-cross: “When I sent Norman Mailer a copy of my… More

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Wallace Crusade”

– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 24, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.
Guest: George Wallace Summary: Mr. Buckley had sharply criticized Mr. Wallace in print, both for his once-adamant attachment to segregation and for his New Deal statism, and Mr. Wallace… More

Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?

– Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1970.
Summary: If America has been an unsympathetic environment for conservatism, conservatism has, nevertheless, demonstrated an extraordinary tenacity in politics, literature, law, religion,… More

Giving Yale to Connecticut

– Harper's Magazine, November 1977.
Excerpt: The purpose of a Yale education can hardly be to turn out a race of idiots. But one would have thought that was what Yale precisely engages in. Walking out of the Huntington Hotel… More

The Enmity Within

– Nathan Glazer, New York Times, September 27, 1992.
Excerpt: Mr. Buckley’s article was not a consideration of anti-Semitism in general, or in the United States. It was, rather, a consideration of charges of anti-Semitism against some… More

William F. Buckley, Jr. and American Conservatism

– James A. Nuechterlein, Commentary, June 1988.
Excerpt: In 1955, when William F. Buckley, Jr. published the first issue of National Review, the conservatism that he and his journal represented stood, isolated and forlorn, at the very… More

In Search of Anti-Semitism

– Continuum International, 1992.
Summary: A thought-provoking extended essay first published in National Review–along with responses by distinguished commentators–on the the ways anti-Semitism reveals itself… More

Mr. Conservative

– New York Times, May 31, 1998.
Excerpt: There wasn’t much left of the Barry Goldwater I knew when, in 1994, he made his regular appearance at the annual Goldwater Award dinner. That year the prize went to Lady… More

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Goldwater Revisited”

– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on July 9, 1998, uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2015.
Guest: Barry Goldwater Summary: Senator Goldwater had died at the age of 89, in his beloved Phoenix. Before showing clips from his last Firing Line appearance, Mr. Buckley recalls his old… More

How ‘Firing Line’ Transformed the Battleground

– Laurence Zuckerman, New York Times, December 18, 1999.
Excerpt: Even many of the guests who turned out at the Museum of Broadcasting on Tuesday to pay tribute to William F. Buckley Jr. on the occasion of the taping of the final broadcast of… More

Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography

– Regnery Publishing, 2004.
Summary: Here is a unique collection of fifty years of essays chosen to form an unconventional autobiography and capstone to his remarkable career as the conservative writer par excellence.… More

Future of Conservatism

– Video, C-SPAN, December 9, 2004.
Summary: William F. Buckley, Jr. and his son Christopher Buckley made their first joint stage appearance to consider the future of American conservatism in a mock episode of Firing Line,… More

Tribute to William F. Buckley

– Video, C-SPAN, October 6, 2005.
Summary: On the 50th anniversary of National Review, the magazine’s founder, William F. Buckley, Jr. was honored by President Bush. The president paid tribute to Mr. Buckley and the… More

Athwart History

– Sam Tanenhaus, The New Republic, March 19, 2007.
Excerpt: Although he remains the most eminent conservative in the United States, his face and voice recognized by millions, William F. Buckley, Jr. has all but retired from public life. At… More

Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater

– Basic Books, 2008.
Summary: In Flying High, William F. Buckley Jr. offers his lyrical remembrance of a singular era in American politics, and a tribute to the modern Conservative movement’s first… 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

God and Man at Yale Turns 60

– Peter Berkowitz, Real Clear Politics, November 5, 2011.
Excerpt: Buckley’s critique of academic orthodoxy at Yale was all the more powerful—and all the more baffling to the zealous guardians of Yale’s academic orthodoxy—for his defense… More

Bill Buckley’s Lesson for Today’s Conservatives

– Neal B. Freeman, Wall Street Journal, February 27, 2016.
Excerpt: What did “Firing Line” add to the culture of its day? It became, first, a national megaphone for conservative values. It wasn’t one of dozens of right-leaning talk shows. It… More