A sad day I had anticipated was coming soon has, alas, arrived -- one of my heroes, William F. Buckley, has died.
I refer to you this 2004 piece I wrote commemorating Mr. Buckley's retirement from National Review and to the tributes that are pouring in at NRO.
More to come later, but suffice it to say for now that this is one of the greatest losses the conservative movement has and probably will ever suffer. No one person (at least, no other private citizen) has done more to advance conservatism and to bring our ideas into the mainstream as this man.
God bless him.
UPDATE: I've written a new column on Buckley for the National Post, which you can find here.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 12:02 PM