Patrick Mcilheran; Buckley's Cheerful, Conservative Revolt

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The Schwarzenegger flick "Terminator 2" is one of those sequels that's better than the original. One small reason is how it sneaks in a helpful and true thought: The heroine recalls the phrase, "no fate but what we make," an antidote to her science-fiction knowledge that humans are doomed to near extermination on a very particular day in the future.

In the movie, pyrotechnics ensue. Yet the notion is more than cinema. It echoes an understanding that William F. Buckley Jr., who died last week at 82, wrote about when he started his enduring political journal, National Review.

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Patrick Mcilheran; Buckley's Cheerful, Conservative Revolt

As Buckley put it in an inaugural essay in 1955, the magazine "stands athwart history, yelling Stop." When I first read that, years later, I didn't get it, other than that Buckley opposed prog...

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