mr. buckley believes that conservative thought is addressed to shaping a visionary or paradigmatic society. he defines the 20th century to be a hideously science centered age with a passion for equality that subverts the ideal society. what does mr. buckley himself say about the philosophy behind the magazine he has founded and which remains, we would all agree, a conservative journal in america. he phrases frank meyer, a senior editor of national review for his development of fusion is him, eight joining -- a joining of the ideas of freedom and virtue. the fundamental of conservativism is the freedom of the person, the primary and of physical society. the state has only three limited functions, national defense, the preservation of domestic order and the administration of justice between citizens. reflecting the views of the founding fathers, meyer said that freedom and virtue are compatible, indeed their correlation is necessary for the good society. meyer wrote that the declaration of independence, the constitution and the federalist papers demonstrate a simultaneous belief in moral val

mr. buckley was the symbol of the establishment, in the course of authority. buckley himself believed in coercive authority. as he sought, the left would not andt that pearl harbor everything leading up to pearl harbor was the foundational error of the entire subsequent post air enterprise. oakley saw the whole world as some sort of a mistake. was heous statement wanted to stand before history and you'll stop. in the didn't believe history that came out therefore, he was not that invested in vietnam arguments. world, you created this it is your mess, you deal with it. it was a sort of washing of the hands. this was the third leg of the stool that tied libertarian conservatism with other kinds. the other two forms did not have much in common but they could agree on anti-communism as the -asis for fusion is him -0- fusionism. , but were variations again, their love of asia was only skin deep. no one really cared about india, people got bored when it came to it. buckley also would be the first theoint out that anti-communism was, itself, a compromise with the orig

mr. buckley say about the philosophy behind the magazine he founded and which remains a most influential conservative journal in america? meyer, a senior editor of national review for his development of fusion is him -- fusionism, adjoining of the idea of virtue. the freedom of the person is a central and primary in political society. onlytate is only -- has three limited functions, national defense, the preservation of domestic order, and the administration of justice between citizens. reflecting the views of the founding fathers, meyer said that freedom and virtue are compatible. indeed, their correlation is necessary for the good society. meyer wrote that the declaration of independence, the constitution and the federalist papers demonstrate simultaneous belief in moral value and the freedom of the individual. i think we can agree, or i would argue, this is the consensus of contemporary american conservatism office by barry goldwater and ronald reagan, the political icons of american conservatism and articulated by bill buckley, it's intellectual spokesman. not a rhetorical trick, but

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