Thomas Meaney · I’d smash you in the face: MAGA’s Debt to Buckley Anti-communist​ dandy, scourge of Ivy League administrators, magazine chieftain, amanuensis to Joe McCarthy, father-...

#WilliamFBuckley
#Trump

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I feel like I wouldn't been a huge #WilliamFBuckley fan if I was alive during his heyday.

#williamfbuckley

@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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The Ghost in the Machine: How William F. Buckley Birthed Today’s Extreme Right (WhoWhatWhy) In 1951, a 25-year-old oil heir with an unplaceable accent declared war on Yale University — and modern American conservatism was born. William F. Buckley Jr...

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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