When William F. Buckley Jr. launched America’s conservative movement half a century ago, the requisite foe came readily to hand. In God & Man at Yale, Buckley identified the university he had just left — and, by implication, the country’s entire higher-education establishment — as the driving force behind “agnosticism and collectivism” in American life. […]
Martin Plissner
Martin Plissner, the former political director of CBS News, is the author of
The Control Room: How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections.