Sam Tanenhaus' new biography examines the life and influence of the political commentator, magazine editor and TV debater who ...

The next presidential election is still a few years away, but Arizona's senators could be contenders in a wide-open ...

The next presidential election is still a few years away, but Arizona's senators could be contenders in a wide-open ...

Barry Goldwater Embraces Extremism // 1964 Presidential Election; ... Then came the presidential debate only one month before the election. Foreign policy was on the menu.

On the pages of National Review and, after 1966, on Firing Line, Buckley pioneered the do-your-own-research rhetorical style: ...

BOOK REVIEW He launched modern conservatism, but what do we really know about William F. Buckley? A big new biography digs into the life of a provacateur.

Sam Tanenhaus’s immersive authorized biography partakes of this nostalgia, even as his portrait of Buckley dispels it. Tanenhaus, a former editor of The New York Times Book Review, concludes on ...

The argumentative bell wouldn’t stop ringing, especially once the debate show Firing Line debuted in 1966. It would last for more than three decades, launching Buckley to new heights of fame.

In 1961, Barry Morris Goldwater, 52, traveling tirelessly about the land to champion the cause of the Republican Party, U.S. conservatism and his own variety of rugged individualism, is the ...

As Barry Goldwater noted, “Every other person in Phoenix is a member of the John Birch Society. I’m not talking about commie-hunted apple pickers or cactus drunks. I’m talking about the ...

Fund explains how Milk campaigned for Barry Goldwater in 1964, and that after opening a small business in San Francisco in 1973, he led a “tax revolt” after a local bureaucrat tried to shake ...