My review of Reid Buckley’s history of his clan, An American Family: The Buckleys, is now on-line. I knew that William F. Buckley Sr. was very much a noninterventionist and man of the Old Right, but I didn’t know just how true that was until I read Reid’s book, which I highly recommend.
At some point I’d like to write an essay on three generations of the Buckley family, tracking their involvement with main currents of American conservatism from the Old Right (Will Buckley) to the Cold War (Bill Buckley) to post-movement conservatism (Christopher Buckley).