William F. Buckley, Jr., conservative writer and founder of the National Review, died yesterday while working at home in Connecticut. He was 82.
Buckley was a fine writer, and, although I don't share many of his principles, to me he represents qualities rarely found among today's political journalists: erudition, logic, and fierceness.
Here he is debating a pretty great foil, Professor Noam Chomsky, in 1969:
The second part of the debate can be seen here.
—Douglas Carlucci
