Author, editor, and political activist, William F. Buckley, Jr. (born 1925) helped to create the modern conservative political movement. His journal, National Review, prepared the way for the presidential terms of Ronald Reagan and George Bush. William...

When William F. Buckley, Jr., stepped down as editor in chief of the National Review in November 1990, he ended day-to-day involvement with the magazine he founded in 1955 to present a "responsible dissent from Liberal orthodoxy." During Buckley's...

William F. Buckley Jr. found fame as the voice of conservatism. Founder of the National Review, the conservative journal of opinion of which he was editor-in-chief until 1990, Buckley also worked as an influential political advisor and popular...

William Frank "Bill" Buckley, Jr. (born November 24, 1925) is an American author and conservative commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and is a nationally...

WHAT A YEAR. Not only did Ronald Reagan get re-elected by a landslide, but William F. Buckley Jr. made it into the Twayne's United States Authors Series, Mr. Buckley has been marmorealized by one Mark Royden Winchell, a professor of English at the...

Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES William Buckley, 82, who died yesterday at his home in Stamford, Conn., was a prolific author and writer who was indispensable to uniting traditionalists and libertarians in making conservatism a major intellectual force in the United States. He...

On the morning of May 14th, a certain Dr. Henry Kissinger was remembering the time the late, great Patricial Taylor Buckley received a phone call at her house at about 8 a.m. The hour, close friends like Dr. Kissinger knew, was far too early to...

"It's been quite something," said Christopher Buckley, of the deluge of phone calls that he and his family had received about the death of his mother, Pat Buckley, on April 15. Mr. Buckley, a humor writer and editor, spoke to The Observer from the Buckley...

Stained Glass is more of a novel than a thriller, and it differs from the idols of its marketplace in some interesting ways. The first is in its sense of character. The second is in the correlative of its title. The third and most important difference is political. Stained Glass is squarely centered on a political issue, not a fantasy. It is worth reading and remembering because it is informed by strategy, and consists, as a novel, in the working out of a political possibility…. The subject is the un...

[Detective fiction has come so far as] to embrace political philosophy in the person of William F. Buckley Jr., that essayist, columnist, hymnodist of all things conservative, in his second thriller, Stained Glass. The first, Saving the Queen, was replete with ambiguity, irony, suspense—all those qualities we associate with Ambler, Greene, le Carre and company—and yet it put forward by example an argument about loyalty and guilt which was, to this reviewer, thoroughly convincing. Now Buckley a...

William F. Buckley Jr. is almost alone in using genuine political mischief as a source of wit in the spy novel. He raises the sort of questions that only the most naïve and the most sophisticated political observers would dare to ask. He says, "What if—" and then proposes something that is as attractive as it is preposterous, something so nearly commonsensical that it throws the entire Western world into pandemonium. He did this in "Stained Glass," his last spy nove...