Christopher Buckley and YAF

With the political defeat of Senator Buckley, many young Americans are bereft of a man we admired and respected and for whom, in countless ways, we worked. As youngsters of the conservative persuasion, we consider it a serious loss to the nation. For this reason especially, the publication, let alone the writing, of Mr. Christopher Buckley’s silly, rambling, and insulting eulogy was in poor taste [“Decompression, Junior Division,” NR, January 7].

Guzzling, gambling, sneering, hashishing, ah, yes! I don’t know what kind of Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, or Ernest Hemingway Mr. Buckley expects us to believe him to be, but as a young conservative he doesn’t make it. Whoever at Yale it was who deigned to ask Mr. Buckley for the privileged use of his name obviously made a mistake. If Mr. Buckley really has applied for YAF membership, I hope the YAF people have the good sense to reject his application.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

With the political defeat of Senator Buckley, many young Americans are bereft of a man we admired and respected and for whom, in countless ways, we worked. As youngsters of the conservative persuasion, we consider it a serious loss to the nation. For this reason especially, the publication, let alone the writing, of Mr. Christopher Buckley’s silly, rambling, and insulting eulogy was in poor taste [“Decompression, Junior Division,” NR, January 7].

Guzzling, gambling, sneering, hashishing, ah, yes! I don’t know what kind of Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, or Ernest Hemingway Mr. Buckley expects us to believe him to be, but as a young conservative he doesn’t make it. Whoever at Yale it was who deigned to ask Mr. Buckley for the privileged use of his name obviously made a mistake. If Mr. Buckley really has applied for YAF membership, I hope the YAF people have the good sense to reject his application.