Dec 31, 2009

Saving the Queen | Social Concerns

William F. Buckley, a Roman Catholic, is a political conservative who firmly believed that the Soviet Union and the countries it dominated were the enemies of freedom and civilization. He decried the liberal refusal to recognize the threat of communism and to struggle more vigorously against it. He particularly objected to what he saw as the moral cowardice of the West in allowing the partition of Europe after the Second World War, and in refusing to aid freedom fighters in Berlin, Hungary, or anywhere in the world men and women rise up in rebellion against communism. Although he...