William F. Buckley, Jr. was a leading commentator who had a vital role in elevating Joseph McCarthy, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, catalyzing a conservative movement that reshaped the Republican ...

Joining us now from New York is Sam Tanenhaus, who is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and the Weekend Review section. He's working on a biography of William F. Buckley. Welcome to the ...

The June issue of The Atlantic features an excerpt from Sam Tanenhaus’s long-awaited biography of the conservative intellectual and polemicist William F. Buckley Jr. That book—Buckley: The Life and ...

Sam Tannenhaus, the author of the best-selling biography of Whittaker Chambers and a book entitled “The Death of Conservatism,” was chosen by William F. Buckley and given unlimited access to files and ...

What would William F. Buckley Jr. have made of the presidencies of Donald J. Trump? That’s the inevitable question after poring over Sam Tanenhaus’s forthcoming biography of the man who did so much to ...

William F. Buckley Jr. is widely known as one of the architects of modern conservatism in America. From its beginnings in 1966, Buckley’s program “Firing Line” offered lively conversation and debate ...

What was it about Buckley that made him so attractive to liberals—and what was it about liberals that caused them to be attracted to conservative figures like Buckley in the first place? William F.

For decades, William F. Buckley Jr. was a one-of-a-kind character: an author and columnist, and a celebrity intellectual. He hosted a TV debate show, "Firing Line," and was often a guest on late night ...