Pos/world/ War II American conservatism is usually linked with the late and great Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona or President Reagan, the movement’s earliest national political heroes. But each man of that august trio gave intellectual and political deference during their lifetimes to the de facto co-founders of modern American conservatism, William F. Buckley Jr. and William A. Rusher,founder/editor and publisher, respectively, of National Review magazine.
It is no exaggeration to say of Buckley and Rusher that most of the mighty vessels of American conservatism, which ultimately sailed the public-policy oceans blue were products of their inspiration and influence.
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