When he died late last month, William F. Buckley Jr. had lived long enough to see — if not to admit — that the movement he is credited with creating, post-WWII American conservatism, had become a monster.
In 1955, when Buckley used his father’s money to create the National Review, he

The obvious has been confirmed. So, if I may quote the absolutely necessary Juan Cole, “Now who will tell the US troops who marched into Iraq in 2003 with pictures of the World Trade Towers pinned to their backpacks? Ooops, guys, sorry.