and clinton rossiter went back to being an academic.and robert nisbet, to continue to write for many, many years, also took a very long hiatus to he went to university administration. now, here's the irony of this. so, the burkeans were communitarians. who never acted together, who never formed a community. and buckley was an individualist who formed a community, "national review." and that community became a very vibrant community. it wasn't just a community of thinkers and writers, but readers can look forward to getting this magazine, and they felt part of something. part of something new, something dynamic. and they looked up to buckley. they looked up to people buckley promoted and people in the magazine. and it is my belief that had there been no one buckley, jr., conservatism would not be the way we think of it today. i can't tell you what it would be. i'm not, and nobody can do alternative history, how would history turn it differently, but i do believe conservatism became what we consider it to be because buckley took it that w