“All great biblical stories begin with Genesis,” [conservative] George Will wrote in the National Review in 1980. “And before there was Ronald Reagan, there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry Goldwater there was National Review, and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind, and the spark in 1980 has become a conflagration.”
Couldn’t have said it better than George Will when it comes to the birth of modern active conservatism. William Frank Buckley, Jr., the genesis of many a great conservative idea and the author of 55 books, dead today at age 82. Read more at the New York Times. Don’t rush to edit the Wikipedia entry on his life, as the death date has already been added.
Image from the Library of Congress (which has yet to update their site!).
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