William F. Buckley’s Quest for Liberty
ABSTRACT
William F. Buckley, Jr. was the best known conservative commentator and intellectual of the second half of the twentieth century. This colloquium provided the framework for a discussion on the challenges liberty faced by returning to the themes and decades of Buckley’s corpus.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
“"The Libertarian Credo," a Firing Line program transcript broadcast April 11, 1982 [Host William F. Buckley, Jr. with guests Tibor R. Machan and examiner Ernest Van den Haag] .” Accessed from the website of the Hoover Institution. http://hoohila.stanford.edu/firingline/ (July 13, 2011).
“"Buckley Quizzed by the Dissatisfied Right," a Firing Line program transcript broadcast July 31, 1987 [Host William F. Buckley, Jr. with guests John Lofton, Howard Phillips, and William Rusher, and examiner Paul Gottfried] .” Accessed from the website of the Hoover Institution. http://hoohila.stanford.edu/firingline (July 13, 2011).
“"Would Anarchy Work?" a Firing Line program transcript broadcast July 10, 1976 [Host William F. Buckley, Jr., with guests Roger Lea MacBride and panelists Ned Potter, Nicholas Ulanov, and Jonathan Kaufman] .” Accessed from the website of the Hoover Institution. http://hoohila.stanford.edu/firingline (July 13, 2011).
“"What Do We Owe Our Country?" a Firing Line program transcript broadcast January 4, 1991 [Host William F. Buckley, Jr., with guest Milton Friedman and moderator Michael E. Kinsley] .” Accessed from the website of the Hoover Institution. http://hoohila.stanford.edu/firingline (July 13, 2011).
Buckley, William F., Jr. Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations, A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus. Edited by Linda Bridges and Roger Kimball. New York: Encounter Books, 2010.
Buckley, William F., Jr. Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc, 2004.
Buckley, William F., Jr. Gratitude: Reflections on What We Owe to Our Country. New York: Random House, 1990.
Buckley, William F., Jr. God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom". Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2002.
Buckley, William F., Jr. Let Us Talk of Many Things. Roseville, CA: Prima Publishing, 2000.
Buckley, William F., Jr. Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith. New York: Doubleday, 1997.
Bundy, McGeorge. “The Attack on Yale.” The Atlantic Monthly (1951): 1-2.
Vidal, Gore. “A Distasteful Encounter with William F. Buckley, Jr.” Esquire (September 1969): 140-150.