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William F. Buckley, who died yesterday at age 82, was an intellectual lion who played a key role
in pushing conservatism to national prominence, and he left tracks in
along the way.Buckley was instrumental in starting not only
National Review magazine but also Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative organization for students interested in
academics and political aspects of campus life. Among its members was Stan Evans, who edited the conservative opinion pages
of the defunct Indian
here.
Pierre Goodrich, a lawyer, businessman and
died in 1973, also founded Liberty Fund, which has its offices in the Castleton area.
uses its $430 million in assets to print conservative-leaning books and to sponsor a couple hundred seminars around the world
on topics of interest to social conservatives and libertarians. Buckley also once spent a day at Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank brought to
Buckley, on his own dime, spent a day talking individually with senior fellows at
before it moved back to the East Coast.Thatâ??s at least some of his shadow here. How would
you describe the state of conservatism in
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