It’s been a heck of a year for Fox Business Network’s Larry Kudlow, one of the few former top Trump chief advisers to make it big on TV after the 2020 election.
A regular on CNBC before becoming former President Donald Trump’s director of the National Economic Council, he didn’t miss a beat when joining Fox to host Kudlow each day after markets close.
In fact, he’s done better, crushing the competition. Averaging 303,000 viewers in his first year, he is on the verge of winning the 4 p.m. slot for Fox for the whole year.
And now, he has won one of the most important prizes in conservative big thinking circles, the National Review Institute’s William F. Buckley Jr. Prize for Leadership in Political Thought.
He will receive it at an honorary dinner at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on Thursday night.
Beforehand, the one-time National Review online business editor told Secrets that Buckley was a huge influence in his life. “That is why I am so honored to receive this award,” he said.
“It is a very great honor for me to receive the William F. Buckley Prize for Leadership in Political Thought. I am humbled by it. Bill and Pat Buckley were dear personal friends. Bill believed in freedom and free markets and capitalism. And he was a religious man — a high church Catholic. Bill Buckley taught us how to conduct civil discussions with political friends and opponents. That is a lost art. He taught me that,” said Kudlow.
