Books
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. “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. “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. “Vietnam Protests”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 26, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Benjamin Spock Summary: Dr. Spock, Mr. Buckley begins by recounting, has said that the threat to our children from “nuclear annihilation” is “a thousand times… 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. “Armies of the Night”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 28, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 15, 2010.Guest: Norman Mailer Summary: This surprisingly genial conversation starts with the subject of Norman Mailer–as most conversations with Norman Mailer do–and goes on from there.… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on December 12, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 16, 2010.Guest: Muhammad Ali Summary: When Mr. Clay joined the Black Muslims, his draft board reversed its earlier determination (made in order to keep him out of the Armed Forces so that he could… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Revisionist Historians”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 23, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Dean Rusk Summary: Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, reviled at the time by the elite press and revisionist historians, was exiled, as his Ivy League friends saw it, to the wilds… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Amnesty, with Ramsey Clark”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 3, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Ramsey Clark Summary: Another go at the debate over whether to offer unconditional amnesty to draft dodgers and deserters, in a high-energy exchange between our guest, Ramsey Clark,… More
Execution Eve And Other Contemporary Ballads
Summary: In Mr. Buckley’s fifth volume of collected material published by Putnam, he is in fine, inimitable form. He calls his book, with a wry look at the deteriorating strategic… 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
Essays
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. “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. “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. “Vietnam Protests”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 26, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Benjamin Spock Summary: Dr. Spock, Mr. Buckley begins by recounting, has said that the threat to our children from “nuclear annihilation” is “a thousand times… 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. “Armies of the Night”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 28, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 15, 2010.Guest: Norman Mailer Summary: This surprisingly genial conversation starts with the subject of Norman Mailer–as most conversations with Norman Mailer do–and goes on from there.… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on December 12, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 16, 2010.Guest: Muhammad Ali Summary: When Mr. Clay joined the Black Muslims, his draft board reversed its earlier determination (made in order to keep him out of the Armed Forces so that he could… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Revisionist Historians”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 23, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Dean Rusk Summary: Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, reviled at the time by the elite press and revisionist historians, was exiled, as his Ivy League friends saw it, to the wilds… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Amnesty, with Ramsey Clark”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 3, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Ramsey Clark Summary: Another go at the debate over whether to offer unconditional amnesty to draft dodgers and deserters, in a high-energy exchange between our guest, Ramsey Clark,… More
Execution Eve And Other Contemporary Ballads
Summary: In Mr. Buckley’s fifth volume of collected material published by Putnam, he is in fine, inimitable form. He calls his book, with a wry look at the deteriorating strategic… 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
Commentary
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. “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. “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. “Vietnam Protests”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 26, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Benjamin Spock Summary: Dr. Spock, Mr. Buckley begins by recounting, has said that the threat to our children from “nuclear annihilation” is “a thousand times… 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. “Armies of the Night”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 28, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 15, 2010.Guest: Norman Mailer Summary: This surprisingly genial conversation starts with the subject of Norman Mailer–as most conversations with Norman Mailer do–and goes on from there.… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on December 12, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 16, 2010.Guest: Muhammad Ali Summary: When Mr. Clay joined the Black Muslims, his draft board reversed its earlier determination (made in order to keep him out of the Armed Forces so that he could… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Revisionist Historians”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 23, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Dean Rusk Summary: Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, reviled at the time by the elite press and revisionist historians, was exiled, as his Ivy League friends saw it, to the wilds… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Amnesty, with Ramsey Clark”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 3, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Ramsey Clark Summary: Another go at the debate over whether to offer unconditional amnesty to draft dodgers and deserters, in a high-energy exchange between our guest, Ramsey Clark,… More
Execution Eve And Other Contemporary Ballads
Summary: In Mr. Buckley’s fifth volume of collected material published by Putnam, he is in fine, inimitable form. He calls his book, with a wry look at the deteriorating strategic… 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
Multimedia
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. “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. “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. “Vietnam Protests”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 26, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Benjamin Spock Summary: Dr. Spock, Mr. Buckley begins by recounting, has said that the threat to our children from “nuclear annihilation” is “a thousand times… 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. “Armies of the Night”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 28, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 15, 2010.Guest: Norman Mailer Summary: This surprisingly genial conversation starts with the subject of Norman Mailer–as most conversations with Norman Mailer do–and goes on from there.… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on December 12, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 16, 2010.Guest: Muhammad Ali Summary: When Mr. Clay joined the Black Muslims, his draft board reversed its earlier determination (made in order to keep him out of the Armed Forces so that he could… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Revisionist Historians”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 23, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Dean Rusk Summary: Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, reviled at the time by the elite press and revisionist historians, was exiled, as his Ivy League friends saw it, to the wilds… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Amnesty, with Ramsey Clark”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 3, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Ramsey Clark Summary: Another go at the debate over whether to offer unconditional amnesty to draft dodgers and deserters, in a high-energy exchange between our guest, Ramsey Clark,… More
Execution Eve And Other Contemporary Ballads
Summary: In Mr. Buckley’s fifth volume of collected material published by Putnam, he is in fine, inimitable form. He calls his book, with a wry look at the deteriorating strategic… 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
Teaching
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. “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. “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. “Vietnam Protests”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 26, 1967, uploaded to YouTube on August 13, 2010.Guest: Benjamin Spock Summary: Dr. Spock, Mr. Buckley begins by recounting, has said that the threat to our children from “nuclear annihilation” is “a thousand times… 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. “Armies of the Night”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on May 28, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 15, 2010.Guest: Norman Mailer Summary: This surprisingly genial conversation starts with the subject of Norman Mailer–as most conversations with Norman Mailer do–and goes on from there.… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on December 12, 1968, uploaded to YouTube on August 16, 2010.Guest: Muhammad Ali Summary: When Mr. Clay joined the Black Muslims, his draft board reversed its earlier determination (made in order to keep him out of the Armed Forces so that he could… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “The Revisionist Historians”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on January 23, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Dean Rusk Summary: Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, reviled at the time by the elite press and revisionist historians, was exiled, as his Ivy League friends saw it, to the wilds… More
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Amnesty, with Ramsey Clark”
– Firing Line Videos, Hoover Institution, taped on June 3, 1974, uploaded to YouTube on March 2, 2015.Guest: Ramsey Clark Summary: Another go at the debate over whether to offer unconditional amnesty to draft dodgers and deserters, in a high-energy exchange between our guest, Ramsey Clark,… More
Execution Eve And Other Contemporary Ballads
Summary: In Mr. Buckley’s fifth volume of collected material published by Putnam, he is in fine, inimitable form. He calls his book, with a wry look at the deteriorating strategic… 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