When William F. Buckley Jr. died in 2008, the United States lost its most articulate champion of conservative ideas. Over the course of a 60-year career in the public eye, Buckley did just about ...

An expansive new biography of William F. Buckley Jr. traces the eventful life of the conservative activist who intuitively grasped the media’s centrality to politics. By Jennifer Burns Jennifer Burns ...

For decades, William F. Buckley Jr. was a one-of-a-kind character: an author and columnist, and a celebrity intellectual. He hosted a TV debate show, "Firing Line," and was often a guest on late night ...

Stephen Spender had spent the Thirties as Mr Buckley puts it dancing along the precipice attempting at once literary integrity and Communist fellow traveling He recovered from that infatuation and ...

The U.S. Postal Service will honor William F. Buckley Jr, a larger-than-life figure who helped define modern American conservatism as a writer, political commentator and novelist, with a new stamp to ...

William F. Buckley, Jr. was a leading commentator who had a vital role in elevating Joseph McCarthy, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, catalyzing a conservative movement that reshaped the Republican ...