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re: Buckley on Ayn Rand
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:30 am to prplhze2000
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:30 am to prplhze2000
Buckley was the only guy in early T.V. conducting debates against prominent leftists. Usually with no idiot reporter acting as a moderator. Just one vs. one. Re: accent...I know that pronouncing 'when' with the 'h' sound first (hwin) sounds odd, but that's the way I was taught to say it in first grade a long time ago.
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Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:31 am to trinidadtiger
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Buckley best selling book, sold 35K copies and hit NYT best seller at number 16.
Atlas Shrugged spent 21 weeks at number one on NYT best seller list and has sold 10 million copies worldwide.
Seems Buckley's swipe at the book was a bit of jealousy
There's a vid out there somewhere with Phyllis Schlafly and Buckley butting heads in a debate and ol Phyllis does a rare thing, she essentially silences Buckley.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:35 am to Bass Tiger
God and Man at Yale is considered one of the leading conservative books.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 11:30 am to prplhze2000
Was always a fan of Buckley since my college days, when I first saw him on Firing Line and read of his feud against that pansy Gore Vidal.
Read several of his non-fiction books, his On The Right columns in the newspapers, would pick up a copy of National Review every so often and was pleased as punch to see him speak in person at LSU in the mid-eighties while I was a student there.
Some pundit once wrote that to those who called him a blowhard and a pompous bully, that was not true; "Buckley speaks and glows with an intimidating self-assurance".
Read several of his non-fiction books, his On The Right columns in the newspapers, would pick up a copy of National Review every so often and was pleased as punch to see him speak in person at LSU in the mid-eighties while I was a student there.
Some pundit once wrote that to those who called him a blowhard and a pompous bully, that was not true; "Buckley speaks and glows with an intimidating self-assurance".
Posted on 9/8/26 at 12:58 pm to coolpapaboze
Fountainhead was her best work and it’s not really close
Posted on 9/8/26 at 2:13 pm to prplhze2000
A central planned economy was what we had up to the 1960's. High import tariffs, price caps on oil at the wellhead, among other things made the US vulnerable AF by 1970. Ayn Rand did not understand technology. Being from the USSR she understood everything moving by train, including oil. Much of the book is fantasy.
Shale oil, aka kerogen was being extracted from the Rockies before WWII experimentally, first by Unocal. It's just too expensive to rock mine, crush then retort to extract from the rock. Rand obviously didn't know this.
Shale oil, aka kerogen was being extracted from the Rockies before WWII experimentally, first by Unocal. It's just too expensive to rock mine, crush then retort to extract from the rock. Rand obviously didn't know this.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 2:28 pm to Ten Bears
quote:What! You didn't like Galt's 100 page monologue?
If you’ve ever read it it is not the best of reads.
She was 100%% right about individualism over collectivism. Where she failed was not having a much better editor.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 3:28 pm to prplhze2000
Rand is a terrible writer. Some of her ideas are OK. She went on the dole late in life.
Buckley is condescending but makes good points sometimes: neo con central. He has a decent sense of humor.
Buckley's treatment of legitimate conservative Joseph Sobran was despicable.
Buckley is condescending but makes good points sometimes: neo con central. He has a decent sense of humor.
Buckley's treatment of legitimate conservative Joseph Sobran was despicable.
This post was edited on 9/8/26 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 9/8/26 at 3:44 pm to prplhze2000
I loved that book. It was a slow start; but once I got into it, I couldn’t put it down.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 3:49 pm to Doctor Strangelove
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Buckley was a self important wind bag with a fake accent.
Buckley grew up in Mexico with Spanish as his first language. He then went to school (boarding?) in England where he developed his english language accent.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 3:52 pm to trinidadtiger
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Seems Buckley's swipe at the book was a bit of jealousy
He complimented her book Fountainhead, but disliked Atlas Shrugged, so it seems like it was a genuine opinion and not jealousy.
I am a voluminous reader and have been for 56 of my 64 years. I tried to read Atlas Shrugged and gave up because it was so tediously written. And I’ve read some tedious books.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 3:57 pm to StringMusic
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Agreed but the message is still valuable.
Some of her message is valuable. Other parts need to be exterminated. Her philosophy of 100% simple self interest is a recipe for holocausts. Her views of the damage of government supplied welfare, and government persecution of the creative and industrious, are spot on. But I can get that from Friedrich Hayek or Lord Acton without the over-aggrandizement of the individual.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 4:38 pm to prplhze2000
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Dude, he rescued the conservative movement when there was no conservative movement. When he came along, the New Deal and Saint Keynes were in full control. Central planning was the order of the day.
He established the conservative movement, nurtured it, and saw it blossom into the election of Reagan. Amazing how many leading conservative writers such as William Rusher, Russell Kirk, Whitaker Chambers. When Buckley died, it was amazing how many writers at other conservative publications said they got their start at National Review.
He was a pro-Israel, conservative gatekeeper.
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