‘He had a cocksureness about him’: Could someone like William F. Buckley Jr. thrive today?

In this two-part episode, best-selling author and journalist Sam Tanenhaus discusses his much-anticipated biography of William F. Buckley Jr., entitled Buckley: The Life and the Revolution that Changed America. In the second part, Tanenhaus covers Buckley the man and his closest friendships and relationships, including his marriage to Canadian Patricia Taylor, and how we should understand him in today’s fast-evolving context of media, politics, and ideas. You can listen to this episode on Amazon, Apple, and Spotify.