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Conservatives’ Self-Delusion on Race
How the right created the illusion of colorblindness.
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Joshua Tait
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Made By History
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October 5, 2018
A History of Smoking
The Right's habit of defiance.
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Joshua Tait
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To Live Is To Maneuver
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September 24, 2025
Steering Right
Sam Tanenhaus’s biography of William F. Buckley has certain limitations, but it captures the character of conservatism’s founding father.
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John O. McGinnis
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Law & Liberty
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June 19, 2025
The Real Bill Buckley
Even some liberals toasted William F. Buckley Jr. as a patrician gentleman. A long-awaited new biography corrects that record.
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Nicole Hemmer
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Democracy Journal
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June 17, 2025
The Conservative Intellectual Who Laid the Groundwork for Trump
The political vision that William F. Buckley helped forge was—and remains today—focused less on adhering to principles and more on ferreting out enemies.
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Jack McCordick
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The New Republic
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June 3, 2025
The Pen Is Mightier
Eight ways to understand the literary-political impact of William F. Buckley Jr.
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Steven Hayward
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Political Questions
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April 15, 2025
A Not-So-Hostile Takeover
Long before the rise of Trump, the American conservative mainstream enjoyed a complex partnership with the Far Right.
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Gillis J. Harp
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Commonweal
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October 4, 2024
An Implausible Mr. Buckley
A new PBS documentary whitewashes the conservative founder of National Review.
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Rick Perlstein
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The American Prospect
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April 17, 2024
The Evolution of Conservative Journalism
From Bill Buckley to our 24/7 media circus.
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Johnny Miller
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National Review
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October 12, 2023
The Spanish-Speaking William F. Buckley
Buckley’s seldom-acknowledged fluency in Spanish shaped his worldview—including his admiration for dictators from Spain to Chile and beyond.
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Bécquer Seguín
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Dissent
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September 28, 2023
How the John Birch Society Won the Long Game
The American right doesn’t need the John Birch Society these days, but that is because it’s adopted the Birchers’ extremism wholesale.
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Nathan J. Robinson
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The Nation
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June 8, 2023
The Fringe Group That Broke the GOP’s Brain — And Helped It Win Elections
The John Birch Society pushed a darker, more conspiratorial politics in the ’50s and ’60s — and looms large over today’s GOP.
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Matthew Dallek
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Ian Ward
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Vox
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March 19, 2023
Good Old Pat
Reflecting on Pat Buchanan's legacy.
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John Ganz
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Unpopular Front
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January 25, 2023
The Birchers & the Trumpers
A new biography of Robert Welch traces the origins and history of the anti-Communist John Birch Society and provides historical perspective on the Trump era.
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James Mann
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New York Review of Books
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June 2, 2022
The Struggle for the Soul of the GOP
Is the Republican Party compatible with democracy?
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Timothy Shenk
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The New Republic
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April 12, 2022
The Conservative and the Murderer
Why did William F. Buckley campaign to free Edgar Smith?
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Sam Adler-Bell
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The New Republic
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March 7, 2022
The John Birch Society Never Left
Why it’s foolish to think the modern GOP will ever break with its lunatic fringe.
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Rick Perlstein
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Edward H. Miller
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The New Republic
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March 8, 2021
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McConnell’s Task: Purging the Crackpots and Bigots
The impeachment exposed the need for Republican leaders to banish the extremists and bigots from their movement.
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Kevin M. Schultz
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Made By History
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February 15, 2021
The Capitol Riot Was an Attack on Multiracial Democracy
True democracy in America is a young, fragile experiment that must be defended if it is to endure.
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Adam Serwer
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The Atlantic
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January 7, 2021
The Year the Clock Broke
How the world we live in already happened in 1992.
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John Ganz
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The Baffler
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November 5, 2018
The Republican Tax Bill Is a Poison Pill That Kills the New Deal
Today’s Republicans would have fit right into Herbert Hoover’s administration.
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Heather Cox Richardson
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BillMoyers.com
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December 7, 2017
American Dreamers
Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history.
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William Hogeland
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Boston Review
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May 1, 2008
Conservatism’s Baton Twirler
A Republican administration that wages war against immigrants and colleges should be understood as the culmination of William F. Buckley conservative movement.
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Osita Nwanevu
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New York Review of Books
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September 2, 2025
Frank Meyer’s Path from Devoted Communist to Promoter of Conservative ‘Fusionism’
A detailed, exhausting, and ultimately too-gentle treatment of the midcentury writer and editor, Frank Meyer.
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Joshua Tait
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The Bulwark
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August 26, 2025
Movement to Movement
Frank Meyer’s journey took him from communist agitator to conservative kingmaker.
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Jacob Heilbrunn
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The American Conservative
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August 25, 2025
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A Republic, if They Can Force It
In public schools around the country, conservatives are succeeding in their long effort to replace the word “democracy” with “constitutional republic.”
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Timothy Messer-Kruse
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HNN
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August 12, 2025
All In the Family
How William F. Buckley Jr. turned his father’s private convictions and prejudices into a major political movement.
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Paul Baumann
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Commonweal
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June 26, 2025
Bridging the Gap
A new book portrays five American historians who published popular books that sacrificed neither intellectual depth nor political bite.
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Michael Kazin
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New York Review of Books
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June 5, 2025
What Made William F. Buckley So Unusual
The author of a new biography talks about the conservative journalist’s life and legacy.
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Sam Tanenhaus
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Cullen Murphy
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The Atlantic
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June 1, 2025
When William F. Buckley Jr. Met James Baldwin
In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped.
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Sam Tanenhaus
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The Atlantic
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May 20, 2025
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