No, there’s no secret connection between the conservative youth organization born at the Buckley home in Sharon, Connecticut 50 years ago this month and left-communitarian author of Rules for Radicals — no connection, that is, except that TAC is presently spotlighting lively new reviews about each of them, courtesy of Jesse Walker and David Franke. Walker draws out the decentralist lessons the Right can learn from Alinsky, while Franke, who was present at the creation of YAF, ponders what has happened to the conservative movement in the course half a century.