t a number of long-term problems in the United States that don't seem to be getting addressed with the current political system. Matthew Shaffer is a William F. Buckley Fellow at the National Review Institute HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031908 --- PAGE BREAK --- 34 Article 7. Project Syndicate Does Anything Matter? Peter Singe

Too much Gingrich and Trump, said another. It's funny, then, to see a panel discussion celebrating the legacy of sainted conservative intellectual William F. Buckley, a man who not only purged bonkers conspiracists like the John Birch Society but edited a magazine that openly and robustly debated gay rights. A 1

party they so adored. The Nieuw Amsterdam was 86,000 tons of painful metaphor. The cruise was sponsored by National Review, the magazine founded by William F. Buckley and for years the most important and probably the most readable journal in all of American conservatism. As with other such magazines — the Nation,

tnership decision. I have engaged in public debates and controversies with some of the most contentious and influential figures of the age including William F. Buckley, Noam Chomsky, Rabbi Meyer Kahana, Rabbi Adan Steinzaltz, Justice Antonin Scalia, Ken Starr, Elie Wiesel, Vaclav Havel, Golda Meir, Red Auerbach, Wil