Over the course of this year, the centenary of William F. Buckley’s birth, we will republish an article by him weekly. This week’s column counsels the nascent Reagan administration on how it should introduce itself to the American public.
The Reagan administration should make a fundamental decision, philosophical in nature. We are poised in America for only a very short period of time, measured in historical stretches, when the opposition is at once weak and curious. The managing editor of The New Republic, the principal tablet-keeper of orthodox liberalism, said the other day, in effect, that conservatives have been saying this-and-that for ever so long, why not go ahead and let them run the country for a little while, and see what happens?
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