Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'conservatism'
February 27, 2008
William F. Buckley died in his Connecticut home today, at age 82. Some consider him the founder of modern conservatism, as he authored the seminal book in 1951 God and Man at Yale, in response to what he saw was an encroaching secularism at one of the nation's top universities, during what was considered one of the nation's most buttoned-down eras. In fact, Buckley was prescient in foreseeing the social revolution of the 1960s. After......
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