The self-professed father of conservatism although the neocon's eventually pissed him off has left this sphere. He wrote 45 books, founded The National Review and wrote millions of words in the process. The NYT has a piece up about him here. Norman Mailer had this to say about Buckley once when asked about him:
"No other act can project simultaneous hints that he is in the act of playing Commodore of the Yacht Club, Joseph Goebbels, Robert Mitchum, Maverick, Savonarola, the nice prep school kid next door, and the snows of yesteryear,"
Buckley also supported the decriminalization of marijuana. Probably one of the few things we had in common. Below is Buckley and Noam Chomsky debating;
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