William F. Buckley

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“The central question that emerges—and it is not a parliamentary question or a question that is answered by merely consulting a catalog of the rights of American citizens, born Equal—is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes—the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race.”
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William F. Buckley (November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American political commentator from the mid-twentieth century. A prominent conservative in a time when that seemed almost oxymoronic, Buckley is sometimes seen as an ancestor of the modern American right-wing, although in many ways he differs radically from the modern right. Most especially, his was an intellectual conservatism; he matriculated at Yale and became well known for his erudition and powerful argumentative skills. As you will read below, he was mostly full of horseshit, but then again, this is the American brand of intellectualism we're dealing with.

Buckley's prominent works included God and Man at Yale, a critique of secularism in academia; Firing Line, a political debate TV show in which he displayed both the aforementioned erudition and a willingness to actually listen to his opponents; and most importantly, the conservative paper National Review. (You can see how well the National Review has turned out without him.)

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  1. National Review editorial, 1957
  2. Roger Chapman. Culture Wars: an encyclopedia of issues, viewpoints, and voices (2009)
  3. Jennifer Burns, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (2010)
  4. Oh boy did Buckley have quite the weakness for No true Scotsman
  5. Though wingnuts have hated him ever since he endorsed Obama in 2008. [1]
  6. http://www.nysun.com/opinion/my-smoking-confessional/67349/
  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8 The famous video itself
  8. Judis. William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives
  9. http://www.nationalreview.com/content/did-he-kiss-joe
  10. National Review, 10/26/1957
  11. National Review, 11/23/1998
  12. Buckley, William F. (1954). McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning. Degenery Publishing, p. 132. ISBN 0-89526-472-2.
  13. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/magazine/11QUESTIONS.html?ei=5070&en=a78be4479c624bcf&ex=1204952400
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