In 1951 Buckley, a 1950 graduate of Yale University, published God and Man at Yale, a scathing critique of his alma mater, in which he suggested that the faculty was overwhelmingly secular and liberal in orientation and failed to indoctrinate students properly with Christian and precapitalist values. This book, along with his 1954 defense of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, McCarthy and His Enemies, brought Buckley acclaim among American conservatives. In National Review, an outlet for conservative opinion, he repeatedly railed against the blunders of the liberal leadership of the United States and pointed out that the Communist danger to the United States comes from Moscow and Beijing rather than a conspiracy at home. Buckley provided an intellectual bridge between the prewar right and the redefined right of 1964. He was an urbane, articulate spokesman for the ultraconservative point of view, an...