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In November 1955, William F. Buckley, Jr., a World War II Army veteran, Yale graduate, and former Central Intelligence Agent (his main job was editing a document describing Soviet communism's aims for world domination), founded National Review. The magazine became an articulate and intelligent voice of Cold War anticommunism, and Buckley became a maestro of modern American conservatism. In addition to serving as NR's editor in chief he hosted the long-running television program "Firing Line," has long penned a popular syndicated column, and has written 43 novels and works of non-fiction. Buckley's 1950 book God & Man at Yale still stands as a powerful indictment of higher ...