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Wednesday, June 30, 2004

A conservative icon steps down

I have a signed piece in today's National Post on the retirement of William F. Buckley Jr. from National Review:

Some 50 years ago, a man named William F. Buckley Jr. started a magazine. The son of a wealthy oilman, the Yale-educated Buckley represented the vanguard of the fledgling political movement we now recognize as modern conservatism. Buckley had first made a mark in 1951 with his controversial book God and Man at Yale. But the founding of National Review in 1955 earned him his standing as one of the most important public intellectuals of the 20th century.

read on... (sorry, subscribers only)

# posted by Adam Daifallah : 8:06 AM

  

 

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