Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches

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Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Foreword......Page 17
Notes from the Lecture Circuit: A New Yorker Essay......Page 22
THE FIFTIES......Page 34
Today We Are Educated Men......Page 36
The Trojan Horse of American Education?......Page 40
The Artist as Aggressor......Page 46
Only Five Thousand Communists?......Page 49
Should Liberalism Be Repudiated?......Page 53
THE SIXTIES......Page 64
In the End, We Will Bury Him......Page 66
Scholar, Fighter, Westerner......Page 71
The Lonely Professor......Page 74
An Island of Hope......Page 75
Norman Mailer and the American Right......Page 81
What Could We Learn from a Communist?......Page 91
Who Did Get Us into This Mess?......Page 101
The Impending Defeat of Barry Goldwater......Page 107
A Growing Spirit of Resistance......Page 111
The Free Society—What's That?......Page 118
Buckley versus Buckley......Page 121
The Heat of Mr. Truman's Kitchen......Page 126
On Selling Books to Booksellers......Page 129
The Aimlessness of American Education......Page 133
"You Have Seen Too Much in China"......Page 141
The Duty of the Educated Catholic......Page 145
Did You Kill Martin Luther King?......Page 150
Life with a Meticulous Colleague......Page 156
On the Perspective of the Eighteen-Year-Old......Page 161
Words to the Counterrevolutionary Young......Page 166
THE SEVENTIES......Page 176
On the Well-Tempered Spirit......Page 178
Resolutely on the Side of Yale's Survival......Page 182
The Republic's Duty to Repress......Page 185
"That Man I Trust"......Page 196
The World That Lenin Shaped......Page 201
John Kerry's America......Page 212
The West Berlin of China......Page 217
Affection, Guidance, and Peanut Brittle......Page 222
On Preserving the Tokens of Hope and Truth......Page 224
Without Marx or Jesus?......Page 230
The "Leftwardmost Viable Candidate"......Page 235
The Terrible Sadness of Spiro Agnew......Page 241
The High Cost of Mr. Nixon's Deceptions......Page 244
On Serving in the United Nations......Page 246
No Dogs in China......Page 251
The Courage of Friedrich Hayek......Page 256
The Protracted Struggle against Cancer......Page 268
A Salutary Impatience......Page 271
Cold Water on the Spirit of Liberty......Page 275
The Reckless Generosity of John Chamberlain......Page 282
A Party for Henry Kissinger......Page 285
What Americanism Seeks to Be......Page 288
THE EIGHTIES......Page 292
His Rhythms Were Not of This World......Page 294
The Rudolph Valentino of the Marketplace......Page 296
The Greatness of James Burnham......Page 301
Halfway between Servility and Hostility......Page 305
Earl Warren and the Meaning of the Constitution......Page 308
Sing a Song of Praise to Failure......Page 310
How Leo Cherne Spent Christmas......Page 320
10 Downing Street: The Girls Club of Britain......Page 323
Moral Distinctions and Modern Warfare......Page 325
Democracy and the Pursuit of Happiness......Page 334
The Genesis of Blackford Oakes......Page 341
Waltzing at West 44th Street......Page 349
The Blood of Our Fathers Ran Strong......Page 353
The Distinguished Mr. Buckley......Page 355
On Her Way to the Cross......Page 357
Out of Oppression, a Political Poet......Page 362
The Massive Eminence of Dr. Sakharov......Page 365
Towards a Recovery of Gratitude......Page 367
A Hero of the Reagan Revolution......Page 370
The Pagan Love Song of Murray Kempton......Page 372
THE NINETIES......Page 378
Dismantling the Evil Empire......Page 380
The Simon Persona......Page 384
A Distinctive Gentility......Page 386
Time to Go to Bed......Page 393
Taxation and the Rule of Law......Page 397
Can Eastern Europe Be Saved?......Page 402
Singularly Humane......Page 408
"If He Gives the Blessing ..."......Page 411
We Won. What Now?......Page 413
The Politics of the Common Man......Page 416
"Better Redwoods than Deadwoods"......Page 420
The Architectural Splendor of Barry Goldwater......Page 422
From Wm to Wm......Page 425
O. J. Simpson and Other Ills......Page 430
The Drug War Is Not Working......Page 437
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men......Page 442
The Underperformance of the Press......Page 449
The Mother Hen of Modern Conservatism......Page 459
Who Cares If Homer Nodded?......Page 462
How to Work, How to Read, How to Love......Page 467
A Serene Gravity......Page 468
The Special Responsibility of Conservatives......Page 470
The Personal Grace of J. K. Galbraith......Page 476
A Man Who Looks the Beggar in the Face......Page 478
Forgiving the Unforgivable......Page 480
The Animating Indiscretions of Ronald Reagan......Page 490
Preserving the Heritage......Page 497
A......Page 512
B......Page 513
C......Page 515
D......Page 519
E......Page 520
F......Page 521
G......Page 522
H......Page 524
I......Page 525
J......Page 526
K......Page 527
L......Page 528
M......Page 529
N......Page 531
P......Page 533
R......Page 535
S......Page 537
T......Page 539
U......Page 541
X......Page 542
Z......Page 544