William F. Buckley Dead at 82

“I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition,” he wrote in The New York Times Book Review in 1986. “I asked myself the other day, ‘Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?’ I couldn’t think of anyone.”

William F. Buckley was incredibly fun to hear and watch. Read what The New York Times has to say here.