#WilliamFBuckley
#Trump
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I feel like I wouldn't been a huge #WilliamFBuckley fan if I was alive during his heyday.
@sethcotlar.bsky.social 🙏
Holy smokes.
#WilliamFBuckley jousting w
#WoodwardAndBernstein
Topped off with erudite queries from another real live journalist and two incipient lawyers still in law school.
#Nixon is still ensconced in office.
51 yrs ago & not quite like it was just yesterday.
What next? A David Duke "Forever" stamp? USPS, Dem primary, Yondr, 2-way street news broken down in the latest opinionated vlog summary from the New Haven Independent assignment desk -- er, #compost heap. #WilliamFBuckley
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How did the #RepublicanParty transform into #MAGA? The answer lies with #WilliamFBuckley — he was the engine that drove this #devolution... Buckley’s genius lay in how to bring together #anti-communists, #racists, #libertarians, #JohnBirchers, #McCarthyites & #conspiracy theorists under 1 umbrella.
Hey #DavidBrooks @nytimesoped.bsky.social when I ask myself, “Who did I associate with #quintessential #pompous #intellectual #snobbery, it’s #WilliamFBuckley, aka your #BestBud “Bill.” And that’s my very best, consistent memory of Bill.
We live in a world increasingly crowded with Buckleys. We need more Baldwins.
#whatimreading #audiobook #audiobooks #jamesbaldwin #williamfbuckley #debate
flashback to a time when right wing influencers did things like interview Jorge Luis Borges about poetry for a full hour
now we're stuck with tim pool and DC_Draino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNxzQSheCkc
#borges #books #williamfbuckley #poetry
60th Anniversary 📺 #OTD in #History 18 Feb 1965, African American writer and activist #JamesBaldwin and conservative intellectual #WilliamFBuckley held their famous televised debate at The Cambridge Union Society in England.
The Debate:
▶️ youtu.be/5Tek9h3a5
The 1965 Baldwin-Buckley Debate Still Matters Today #JamesBaldwin #WilliamFBuckley #Cambridge Union Society, on '65 race relations in America #civilrights #ACLU I Am Not Your Negro #BLM
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