Most famous for founding National Review magazine, Bill Buckley was probably more responsible for creating the modern-day American conservative movement than any other single individual. At a time when the country (and the whole world) was shifting left, Buckley spent his life advancing a libertarian brand of conservatism, which would acheive dominance under the leadership of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
He died on Wednesday, February 27th at age 82. Click here to listen to my tribute to a great man. (And don’t worry, it’s only about half as long as it looks… there’s a lot of empty space at the end. We’re going to try to fix that.)
Also here’s part of a pretty well-known debate between Buckley and Noam Chomsky, who’s about as ideologically opposite from Buckley as you can get. You’d have a hard time getting this on CNN or FOX News today:
If you haven’t seen the second film I mention, “Persepolis,” it is currently playing at the College Mall Kerasotes theater in Bloomington, so give it a viewing if you have the chance. I highly recommend it. Especially if it’s between “Witless Protection” and “Vantage Point.”
Check out the trailer here:
Animated films deserve a place outside of the realm of “kid’s movies,” and movies like this one prove it.
It’s hardly worth repeating how disappointed conservatives are with their prospects this election. Everybody knows by now how much we dislike McCain, and how we’re trying to decide what we’ll do in November.
We often remind ourselves that it took four years of Carter to give us Reagan, but I don’t want to wait until 2012 for conservative leadership. We can take back Washington.
Not to be a shameless self-promoter, but I’m going to be a shameless self-promoter.
If you liked Cory’s column on the lukewarm response to the end of the writers strike, check out my podcast on the subject. My point of view is similar to Cory, in that the bulk of the “damage” caused by the writers strike may take much longer to manifest itself. The basic gist of my argument is that now that we have experienced a world without writers and seen that it’s not all that bad, they have made themselves far more expendable.
March 3rd, 2008 by 
Chase Cooper
