Invoking William F. Buckley's Wit in Modern Conservative Debates
Showing 5 William F. Buckley videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Chris Buskirk, publisher of American Greatness, invokes William F. Buckley's famous, deliberately theatrical pledge to stand "athwart history yelling stop" during a conversation with Charlie Kirk about why the conservative movement needs to think bigger than reflexive opposition, arguing that Buckley's characteristic wit and self-deprecating humor reflected a kind of emotional health modern conservatism sometimes lacks. The same conversation explores what conservatism should stand for beyond resistance, with Buskirk framing the movement's task as offering a positive vision of how society should live rather than only rejecting progressive proposals. Separately, in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination, commentators including Dinesh D'Souza and Andrew Kolvet have debated what unites the conservative movement Kirk helped build, with D'Souza specifically warning that conspiracy theories embraced by some on the right echo the kind of intellectual decline Buckley spent his career trying to keep out of the conservative movement's mainstream.