Last weekend I was given a hint as to how an erroneous idea is born and how it takes on a life of its own. I was at Yale University as a guest of the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale. It’s run by a group of extremely winning young Yale students who are all admirably conservative. Bill would approve. They all carried themselves like young ladies and young gentlemen. They were confident in their ideas and amused.
One of their goals is to keep the name of William F. Buckley Jr. alive and a thorn in the side of Yale’s smug liberal establishment. The theme of the weekend was commemorating the 60th anniversary of the publication of “God and Man at Yale,” written by the very same enfant terrible, William F. Buckley Jr. It nicely complemented the group’s mission of badgering haughty Yale.
