http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/17092/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/bill-buckley-made-it-okay-be-conservative <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/robert-knight">Robert Knight</a> </div> </div> </div> <p >William F. Buckley connected the dots for me back when I was a liberal college student trying to make sense of things. </p> <br /> <p >Punch drunk from the Vietnam War and the excesses of the drug-addled Sixties and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Seventies</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place> had thrown itself on the couch and seemed to be having a nervous breakdown. Like a patient doctor, Bill Buckley gently and relentlessly helped talk the  nation back to sanity with his many TV appearances and prolific writing. </p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/bill-buckley-made-it-okay-be-conservative" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Culture Education conservative FiringLine PBS WilliamF.BuckleyJr. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0000 admin 28356 at http://archive2.mrc.org