days gone by, william f. buckley jr. is a beautifully written autobiography by the founder of the american conservative movement. ethnic america pleaded no by thomas stole, our foremost black intellectual examines some of the ethnic groups, jewish, of rich, german, african-american, why some have a greater impact than others. let me be clear about one thing. a book is a book is a book. it is not a snippet or a scrap or a fragment. a book contains thousands of words, hundreds of pages, which permit the author to develop their early his ideas and his arguments or his characters in a novel. a book doesn't have to be printed on paper. the success of audio books proves that. i would like to say a few complimentary words about the kindle, amazon's electronic reader. the kendall is about the size of a book. it weighs less than a pound and can hold more than 200 books and offers access to several hundred thousand titles at about $10 a pop. but i must confess, i prefer the printed and bound book. there is something tactile and ti

sobrante teachings had reviewed in national review itself, the letter was also sent to its editor, william f. buckley, jr. but whereas the editor of the nation had responded to a similar letter, by denying that vidal piece is anti-semitic or even preposterously anti-israel, buckley wrote an editorial associate his magazine from sobrante on this issue. and admonishing him to begin respecting the unwelcome -- the welcome structure of taboos concerning israel and the jews. what emerged from his dramatic contrast between the two cases was further evidence that anti-semitism had largely, if not in the name of pat buchanan reminds us, it's not entirely vanished from its traditional home on the right. while especially in the guise of anti-zionism, it was meeting with more and more toleration, and sometimes even approval on the left. this momentous reversal also manifested itself in the bitter debates over other issues of jewish interests and concerns such as quotas in the plight of soviet jewelry that i analyze in detail in my book. but it was and is a christian attitude toward israel that the reversal of r