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He was the single host of the weekly PBS program Firing Line for more than thirty years and 1,504 programs, happily jousting with and besting the liberal likes of Norman Mailer, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Norman Thomas, William Sloane Coffin Jr., and Jesse Jackson.
He was the founder and hands-on editor of National Review, the most influential conservative journal in America from its founding in 1955. He was the author of some fifty-five works of nonfiction and fiction, including best-selling novels featuring the ever-resourceful CIA agent Blackford Oakes. He wrote more than six thousand newspaper columns starting in 1962 and continuing until 2008, when he died at his computer, writing a column. Its topic: the obligation, especially if you are in public life, to use the right words.
He ran for mayor of New York City, the most liberal city in America, shocking the pundits when he received 13.4 percent of the popular vote. He campaigned on a staunchly conservative platform that included an increase in the police force, lower taxes, workfare, disavowal of those who “encouraged racism, lawlessness and despair” among blacks, decentralization of city schools, and a reduction of the urban renewal and city planning that “dehumanized” the city. In his landmark study The Emerging Republican Majority, Kevin Phillips cited Buckley’s vote as a “harbinger” of the “silent majority” that elected Richard Nixon president in 1968 and helped Ronald Reagan win by landslides in 1980 and 1980. (Read more.)
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