Giving thanks for Bill Buckley

William F. Buckley turns 80 today. George Will pays tribute to Buckley as the most consequential journalist of all time: “A journalist for the ages.” I’ve written about Buckley here many times, most recently in “WFB@80” and in “Present at the creation.”

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