re: #131 HappyWarrior

I’ll be honest here. Even though I think one can differentiate William F. Buckley from say John Derbyshire, I find it hard to respect a man who one time supported racial segregation and was I think until death a believer that Joseph McCarthy was right. So, I’ve never been a fan of the National Review because of that. I appreciate that Mr. Buckley wasn’t anti intellectual but still I would say ultimately people like him were more the problem than the solution especially in the 1950’s and 1960’s.

I would agree somewhat, but Buckley did have a fairly significant moderation in his viewpoint in regards to racial matters, as evidenced by his rather public firing of Pat Buchanan. He saw racism as a losing strategy, and pushed back against it in his later years.