If you were at King’s Dominion in Virginia yesterday, I was the guy reading the Claremont Review of Books while my kids climbed around the construction-truck/jungle-gym/sandbox thing over near the Nickelodeon rides. Must-reading for all fans of WFB: Michael Uhlmann’s essay, “The Right Stuff.” A sample: “Buckley practically invented a new style of political combat, in which he was both observer and participant, bringing to both roles beguiling elegance. His writing was marked by a distinctive, even daring mannerism quite unlike any before seen. It was at times unduly Latinate and, as Bill taught us all to say, sesquipedalian, but it was unique and uniquely his own. In less competent hands, such a style might have been reduced to mere eccentricity, but in Buckley’s, the result was captivating, at once vigorous and playful, always exhibiting a fine ear for the music of language.”