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NR lost me for the last time when they slimed Pat Buchanan back in ‘92. All but branded him a neo-Nazi.

Joe Sobran was another casualty of Buckley’s terrible PC sword.

. . . and I have often wondered what happened to that Professor Greenlee who wrote great articles about the westward expansion. Did the AIM folks take aim at him, or did WFB and Bill Rusher?

Joe Sobran was another casualty of Buckley's terrible sword.

I never was a Buckley fan although I did enjoy his Firing Line program. I couldn't take him seriously after he dismissed Ayn Rand, who was a more profound thinker than Buckley was and a true advocate for liberty. And when he ostracized Joe Sobran, who was arguably the greatest American Catholic intellectual of that era, I knew Buckley was really just a pretender. His hamhanded castoff of his magazine to the likes of Lowry and Goldberg was par for the course with him by then.