By Jonathon Van Maren Like any young conservative who wants to become a writer someday, William F. Buckley was one of my heroes back when I attended university in Vancouver (where, incidentally, his wife Patricia hailed from). His resume was so impressive it was hard not to be awed: He founded the National Review, began…
By Jonathon Van Maren It has been 67 years since the publication of William F. Buckley’s famous conservative breakout bestseller, God and Man at Yale—and only six years since Nathan Harden’s 21st century update God and Sex at Yale: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad. But the latest news out of Yale…
For the tenth anniversary of conservative titan William F. Buckley’s death, his son, the novelist Christopher Buckley joins Jonathon Van Maren to remember the man and his legacy.
By Jonathon Van Maren After reading and reviewing traditionalist writer Rod Dreher’s much-discussed manifesto The Benedict Option this year (and his memoir The Little Way of Ruthie Leming earlier), I decided that I should probably read a few more such books—books that didn’t simply make the case for one political philosophy over another, but focused…
By Jonathon Van Maren Times seem dark for American conservatism. With the Republican Party engaging in a bloody, full-fledged civil war, the House of Clinton slowly rising once again, and the potential of Barack Obama stacking the Supreme Court with progressive justices for a generation, politicians constantly conjure up the smiling, sunny face of Ronald…