NOTE FROM THE PUGLISHER : Civility and Freedom
Regnery, Alfred S.
noTe fRoM THe PublIsHeR Civility and Freedom by Alfred s. regnery A s we mourn the passing of Bill Buckley, it is interesting to note the contrast between the uni-versal praise now being...
...And with the loss of habit came the loss of ability to bring about a rebirth of civil society and to support the resulting revival of individual liberty...
...Those “methods” were simply that the donors and trustees should have a little more say in what was going on in the classrooms...
...The New Republic went even farther out on the fascist limb, saying “it is astounding, on the assumption that Buckley is well-meaning, that he has not realized that the methods he proposes for his alma mater are precisely those employed in Italy, Germany and Russia...
...noTe fRoM THe PublIsHeR Civility and Freedom by Alfred s. regnery A s we mourn the passing of Bill Buckley, it is interesting to note the contrast between the uni-versal praise now being accord-edhimbyevenhisoldenemies, and the positively nasty reaction that he generated when he first leapt into the national spotlight in 1951 with the publication of God and Man at Yale...
...The religious right, Novak believes, is to the Republican Party what organized labor is to the Democrats—absolutely indispensable...
...We are also pleased to feature again our esteemed colleague Mr...
...Yet despite the best efforts of the Bolsheviks, the human spirit is a difficult thing to eradicate and, as Applebaum tells us, little by little one sees the return, at least in some parts of the old East Bloc, of ideas about individual liberty...
...It may prove to be one of John McCain’s most difficult tasks...
...There will undoubtedly be robed fig-ures who gather to it, but the hoods will not be aca-demic...
...They will cover the face...
...A twisted and ignorant young man,” wrote McGeorge Bundy in the Atlantic...
...Alfred s. Regnery is publisher of The American Spectator and author of the new book Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism (Threshold/ Simon & Schuster...
...One of the things that overjoyed Bill Buckley, along with the rest of us, was the disintegration of the Soviet Union...
...Erudite, funny, generous: Bill Buckley was a magnificent human being, by any standard,” liberal stalwart James K. Galbraith wrote recently in the New Republic—just a very few of the thousands of words of praise and accolades from every quarter, including those who found him so dis-tasteful in 1951, about our old friend and mentor William F. Buckley, Jr...
...Robert Novak, whose insights into the uneasy relationship of evangelical Christians and the Republican Party, as Mike Huckabee returns from the national hustings to Arkansas, could not be more timely...
...As difficult as accepting evangelicals into the inner sanctum of the party by the “pro-choice, elitist country club Republicans” may be, the failure to do so, Novak warns, will mean permanent minority status for the GOP...
...As we continue on with our series 6 THe AMeRIcAn sPecTAToR APRIl 2008 on individual liberty, we are pleased to present a splendid piece by Washington Post columnist and resident of Poland Anne Applebaum, who writes about the renewal of individual liberty in the old East Bloc...
...Even though the left all despised the way Buckley made conservatism respectable, his charm and good humor endeared him to even the most ardent of that stripe...
...How debilitating Communism was, not only in the obvious sense, but also regarding the little things that make life worth living...
...A review in the Saturday Review, at the time one of the leading left-leaning literary magazines, stated that the book “is one which has the glow and appeal of a fiery cross on a hillside at night...
...Citizens lost the habit, writes Applebaum, of organizing anything for them selves, even the small-scale social organizations from which public spirit arises...
Vol. 41 • April 2008 • No. 3
