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Buckley resigns from National Review

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Published Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Christopher Buckley ’75, co-founder of the Yale Daily News magazine and son of conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. ’50, resigned Saturday from his position as a columnist at National Review, the influential magazine his father founded five years after graduating from Yale.

The younger Buckley offered up his post to National Review editor Rich Lowry after Buckley’s Thursday endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama in an online news magazine elicited a wave of outrage from National Review readers.

“By Friday, I was Judas,” said Buckley in a...

#1 By George P. 5:51a.m. on October 15, 2008

God is man at Yale---and at the National Review too. Will Buckley retreat to Colombey les Deux Eglises and await the public's call to return to the throne?

#2 By George P. 7:50a.m. on October 15, 2008

I don't care one way or the other that Buckley has resigned from the NR, but I admire the man for seeing in this election what so many supposed intellectual conservatives have not.

#3 By George P. 8:28a.m. on October 15, 2008

Judas.

#4 By (Anonymous) 8:47a.m. on October 15, 2008

Bravo, Christopher Buckley. The National Review is intellectually bankrupt anyway, best get off that ship before it sinks.

#5 By Bucky 10:10a.m. on October 15, 2008

It is obvious that the son did not inherit the father's wisdom and intelligence.

#6 By (Anonymous) 10:20a.m. on October 15, 2008

Definitely a fan of Buckley's, but don't you think another alumnus' recent Nobel Prize for Economics is a bit more newsworthy?

#7 By Recent Alum (and NR Reader) 12:29p.m. on October 15, 2008

I am surprised that Chris Buckley apparently never read Dante's Divine Comedy. If he had, he would probably have remembered who, in Inferno, was administered the worst punishment in the center zone of the Ninth Circle of Hell...

#8 By BFA 12:49p.m. on October 15, 2008

#6 - I completely agree.

#9 By (Anonymous) 8:13p.m. on October 15, 2008

#7: Are you really trying to imply that McCain is Christ? Seems a little extreme to me.

#10 By (Anonymous) 3:05p.m. on October 16, 2008

McCain is the antichrist

#11 By Jinx M. 3:36p.m. on October 17, 2008

This is such old news. Most people knew about this days ago. Why did it take Yahoo so long to come up to speed?

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