
As magazine editor, author and political talk-show host, William F Buckley Jr is often called an intellectual godfather to the US hard right. Godfather, perhaps. Intellectual? Yes and no. He is remembered today less for his own ideas or for the big book on conservatism that he never wrote than for outstanding personal gifts. Buckley (1925-2008) had fierce verbal skills, charm that disarmed opponents and a talent for keeping disputatious intellectuals of the right together on the same magazine, National Review.
作为杂志编辑、作家和政治脱口秀主持人,小威廉•F•巴克利常被称为美国极右翼的思想教父。教父,也许没错。知识分子?可说是也可说不是。如今,人们记住他的,与其说是他本人的思想或那本他从未写出的保守主义巨著,不如说是他卓越的个人天赋。小威廉•F•巴克利(1925-2008)以犀利的口才、能让对手放下戒备的魅力,以及让右翼思想家们团结在同一本《国家评论》(National Review)杂志上的能力而著称。