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Remembering William F. Buckley, a Year Later

From Palin and Blago to the trillion-dollar stimulus, if only we could know what he would make of all this.

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My father, William F. Buckley, Jr, died a year ago this week, and I thought to mark the occasion in this space, normally devoted to making raspberries at the cosmos and endorsing Democrats for high office.

I’ve found myself reaching for the phone so many times since last February 27, not...

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