This time from Peggy Noonan (via NRO):

I gotta tell you, Chris, what you just said about Bill Buckley was beautiful from beginning to end, and I shared very much your recounting of what it was like to discover National Review when we were kids. For you, it was one point of view that you were discovering. For me, as a young, unformed-politically person, it was a magazine that told me things I had never heard before: There was a conservative movement, there was something called conservatism, there was a way of thinking or approaching the world that I had never heard of before.

Peggy wrote an op-ed and wondered whether or not our elites had made a separate peace with the tough history that's undoubtedly coming. I'm sure Buckley wasn't included in that list; he would have roused us in whatever restoration efforts are sure to follow this trolley wreck.

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