William F Buckley

from the This I Believe on NPR
RIP Mr Buckley--you changed my life when I was searching for answers.
My prayers to his son, family and friends

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[dingorex]

Thanks for all the comments.I'm really torn up at his passing more so as I was planning to post this today not knowing,and had posted his Firing Line with Mortimer Adler on Intellect Mind Over Matter just 2 days ago.

[lethalfarm]

Communism killed over 100 million people...through the regimes of stalin, mao, pol pot and others. More efficient then anything hilter ever did. You don't know this because you are a well-educated knee-jerk liberal establishment conformist...you "Think" you are educated....you are in fact part of the great liberal Bourgeoisie...educated by the groupthink in the liberal mass media and liberal university education system. Congratulations you are so different your the same as everone.

[mccronej]

bless him

[thegreatfearblog]

What a treasure of a channel! I stumbled upon it while searching for videos with Mortimer Adler and ended up knowing William F Buckley who I had never knew about.

[PEMII]

This gentleman set a benchmark for what conservatism is. Without him their would be even more disciples of the liberal entitlement movement in this country. Without him we would not have had the honor of having Ronald Reagan as our President.

[DermochelysCoriacea]

I love this essay.

[DarthKazi]

His leaning are a direct result of his wealthy and worldly upbringing. This is not his 'fault', not can he take credit for it.

He was thoughtful and believed in what he said. His words were well-picked and he was linguistically adept.

Though I rarely agreed with his public policy arguments, his belief in free-choice and free-thought are appreciated.

RIP.

[reaguirre]

this essay is profoundly wise; works to conteplate constantly

[Pleblian]

I have never agreed with anything William F. Buckley espoused, but I did respect him as a human being.

He was a thoughtful opponent who did not resort to mean diatribes. I cannot say the same for likes of his, arch nemeses, Gore Vidal, for which I am in the unfortunate position of agreeing with.

He will be missed

[RightWingCon81]

Even the French Enlightenment had serious leanings to the modern right. It's hard to define these people in th right left specrum of today, They were probobably to the left of their day ad to the right today. I would say that the and socialism as we know it came out of Germany with yes, French influence.

[FAHayek89]

I will agree with you on the Scottish Enlightenment.  I would argue that the French Enlightenment provided the seeds of modern liberalism and all of the other ideological "isms" of the 20th century (socialism, Marxism, fascism, national socialism, etc.)

[FAHayek89]

The Scottish Enlightenment (Burke, Hume, Smith, etc.) was the birthplace of classical liberalism, which went on to make up one of the wings of the modern American conservative movement. The French Enlightenment, with its emphasis on equality, social restructuring, and utopianism, provides the intellectual antecedents to socialism, statism, Marxism, and the ideologies of the twentieth century. Robespierre was the product and foreshadowed Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, not of Goldwater or Reagan.

[RightWingCon81]

The enlightenment is often seen as the birth place of modern liberalism when infact it was the birth o classical liberalism ie conservatism with its views on property, democrac, etc.