Among the speakers at this week’s Heritage Foundation Bloggers Briefing, the consensus was clear: College students could stand more exposure to conservative ideas. The inherent contradiction of the liberal political consensus among students is mystifying, the speakers said. American Action Forum President Douglas Holtz-Eakin put it this way: “Young people have supported [President] Obama in droves, even though they’re at a point in their life when they’re typically most rebellious — and he is going to tell them how to run every part of their life.” “Why aren’t college students …
In its infancy, the conservative movement was a set of philosophically diverse, isolated camps, whose internal divisions enabled the left to deride them as intellectual weak. These conservative camps would remain divided and functionally conquered—unless an overriding event or an individual of unusual resolve and charisma brought them together. The catalyst turned out to be William F. Buckley Jr., a 29-year-old Yale graduate and privileged son of an oil millionaire. Who was this man who united conservatism, creating converts one National Review issue at a time? How should we understand …
L. Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center and nephew of the late National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr., visited Heritage last week to promote Buckley’s last book “The Reagan I Knew.” Published in October after Buckley’s death, the book documents the 30-year friendship with the late president. Bozell, humbled in his role as spokesman for the book, told the assembled group how more than 900 books have been written about President Ronald Reagan. He explained how Buckley was perhaps the former president’s closest friend. In Buckley’s last book, he gives …
An audible gasp could be heard throughout the building when news spread that William F. Buckley Jr. died this morning. Heritage Foundation President Edwin Feulner (pictured above with Buckley, center, and former Attorney General Ed Meese, left) has issued a statement: Without Bill Buckley there would be no National Review. And without National Review, there would be no conservative movement, no Heritage Foundation, no President Reagan – or an America that’s recognizable today. Buckley’s work has long been appreciated here at Heritage. In 2007, Strictly Right: William F. Buckley Jr. …
