Garry Wills

In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped.

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.

The author of a new biography talks about the conservative journalist’s life and legacy.

The life and career of Murray Kempton attest to the disappearing ideals of a dying industry. But his example suggests those ideals are not beyond resurrection.

Having inherited his mother’s beliefs, Reagan was ever faithful to the Disciples of Christ, whose tenets were often at odds with those of the GOP.

We don’t need to imagine a world ravaged by nuclear war – we’re already living in it.

Why did William F. Buckley campaign to free Edgar Smith?

Daniel James Sundahl reviews D. G. Hart’s American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War.

The overlooked first mentor of Thomas Jefferson.

Are the truths in the Declaration of Independence really self-evident?

Athenian democracy in the political imagination.

Jefferson and his connection to partisanship in early America.

Family blessings are a curse, or they can be. The life of Henry Adams explained in his book Education.

“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law,” declared the man who would be America’s sixteenth president.

Trump campaigns like Richard Nixon and George Wallace, but in reality, he is Lyndon Johnson: a man who has lost control of the machine.

Even knowing every awful thing Richard Nixon would go on to do, you had to respect, as the phrase goes, his hustle.

Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.

If you're wondering how Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan beguile you with a history no one else can tell.

Richard Nixon, Billy Graham, and their White House church services.

A case of 18th-century politicking has stymied our ability to deal with a 21st-century crisis.