In breaking news this week, former New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus finally finished his authorized biography of William F. Buckley Jr. It took him only about 25 years to complete the 1 ...

A landmark biography shows the storied conservative leader walking intellectual, journalistic, and financial tightropes.

William F. Buckley Jr.’s influence has been overstated, writes Bruce Fein in a review of a new biography of the late conservative thinker.

For decades, William F. Buckley Jr. was a one-of-a-kind character: an author and columnist, and a celebrity intellectual. He hosted a TV debate show, "Firing Line," and was often a guest on late ...

B efore Charlie Kirk and Christopher F. Rufo, there was William F. Buckley Jr., a conservative polemicist with a mellifluous voice, impish grin, and instinct for the jugular. Buckley, who died in ...

It was obvious why Mr. Trump would invoke William F. Buckley Jr. — the author, columnist, magazine editor, TV debater and political candidate who died at 82 in 2008 (and who worked for decades ...

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution that Changed America, by Sam Tanenhaus, Random House, 1,040 pages, $40 For decades, William F. Buckley Jr.—journalist, editor, novelist, television host ...

Join AEI’s Matthew Continetti, Jonah Goldberg, Yuval Levin, and Ramesh Ponnuru as they discuss William F. Buckley Jr.’s legacy and American conservatism’s past, present, and future.

Lawrence Perelman, whose adolescent fan letter to William F. Buckley resulted in a music-filled, lifelong friendship, writes about it in "American Impresario." Subscribe Log In ...

The June issue of The Atlantic features an excerpt from Sam Tanenhaus’s long-awaited biography of the conservative intellectual and polemicist William F. Buckley Jr. That book—Buckley: The ...