Following the war, he attended Yale University, where he engaged in debate and conservative political commentary; he graduated from Yale with honors in 1950. Afterward, he worked at the Central Intelligence Agency for two years.

Launched as the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program by undergraduates in 2011 under the guidance of Professor Donald Kagan, the Buckley Institute attracts students across the political spectrum, bolstering free speech at Yale and beyond.

In September 1946, when William F. Buckley Jr., 20 years old and freshly discharged from the U.S. Army, arrived in New Haven, he entered a university undergoing a profound transformation. Owing to the G.I. Bill, the Class of 1950 was by far the largest in Yale history, its 1,800 members more than double the prewar average.

Academic freedom, in the ’50s as today, was a cherished concept in higher education, with origins early in the first universities in Europe, although it was not widely acknowledged in the United States until the twentieth century. For Buckley, it was hypocrisy and should be abolished.

In September 1946, when William F. Buckley Jr., 20 years old and freshly discharged from the U.S. Army, arrived in New Haven, he entered a university undergoing a profound transformation. Owing to the G.I. Bill, the Class of 1950 was by far the largest in Yale history, its 1,800 members more than double the prewar average.

Dec 24, 2017 · According to George H. Nash, author of the definitive history of the postwar conservative movement, Buckley published fifty-five books (fiction and non-fiction); dozens of book reviews; 225 obituary essays; more than eight hundred editorials, articles and remarks in National Review; and approximately 5,600 newspaper columns.

William F. Buckley Jr. began his career as Yale's most famous dissident, the author of a coruscating attack on the school for the collectivism of its economists and the lack of Christian mission in its administrators. Three decades on, Buckley had become as …

Sep 16, 2024 · In 1951, four years prior to the first issue of the National Review, William Buckley published God and Man at Yale as an undergraduate. The ideas in Buckley’s debut political salvo should sound familiar to the contemporary college student.

Feb 28, 2008 · William F. Buckley, the majestic patriarch of modern American conservatism, died yesterday at the genteel old age of 82. He was one of the last truly charismatic public …

May 13, 2017 · When the conservative editor and intellectual William F. Buckley, Jr., ran for mayor of New York in 1965, he may have been the first conservative to endorse affirmative action, or, as he called...