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...chief spokesman for the signal political phenomenon of late 20th century America: the rise of conservatism. The son of an oilman, he leveraged his wealth with energy, passion and cheerful relentlessness. He wrote books laying out the conservative worldview; launched a magazine, National Review, to nurture and promote it; and created one of the longest-running shows in public-television history, Firing Line, to broadcast his views to millions...
Houghton said that the review process outlined by the city does not give Allston residents enough of a voice in the negotiations...
...have much patience with those who so urge it.” That Buckley was dead wrong on pretty much every major historical issue of his time—McCarthyism, civil rights, Vietnam—seems to matter little to his swooning acolytes. The National Review has floundered some in recent years, but what holds it together is an almost cultish devotion to the personality of its founding father—whether or not this was Buckley’s intention at all. Such were his charms. Similarly, while conservatism erodes today as a practical governing philosophy, a shell...
...founder of the National Review, Buckley lent an intellectual conscience and a new energy to a conservative movement that had long been wallowing in dour irrelevance. His greatest achievement was to serve as the demiurgic force behind the emerging conservative coalition of the 1960s and 70s, unifying Goldwater libertarianism with ardent anti-communism and the remnants of the conservative old guard. The crowning achievement of his project, of course, was the messianic rise and eventual election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency...
...Indeed, Buckley was in a sense mummified in his later years, retiring from the National Review in 2004, looming avuncular above the fray while the internecine policy battles raged, at that point primarily over Iraq. His movement, he seemed to understand with a certain melancholy resignation, had dissipated, had lost the exuberance and intellectual vitality of his storied youth. Increasingly feeble, he gave occasional speeches, delivered with his signature wit but devoid of his former rancor. In the end, it seemed, all the pater familias really wanted was a little peace for his family...