The Republican Party of Texas recounts one of the Republican Party's great success stories.
David B. Frisk
Basic Symbols offers a counterpoint to the commitment to individual rights and equality that so many take as the essence of Americanism.
A fairly coherent Right still exists in America—and it needs help, not a re-founding.
Nicholas Buccola's The Fire Is Upon Us reveals Buckley’s and Baldwin’s longstanding positions on civil rights and race.
Many in the Sixties Generation voted for Nixon; a surprising number weren’t demanding a presidential candidate who was “one of them.”
Liberal Dems didn’t trust the Dixiecrats while conservative Republicans didn’t trust the GOP elite. Now we know how consequential these feelings have been.
For the many nostalgic conservatives with strong emotional investments in Buckley, the fading familiarity with him among his countrymen hurts a little.
David B. Frisk is a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization and the author of If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement (ISI Books, 2012).