70 Year Magazine Archive

On the Right

by Wm. F. Buckley Jr.

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New York, Dec. 28—My brothers ideological and biological are divided on the issue of the SST, as is the Congress of the United States. James Burnham, philosopher, strategist and my colleague on national review, bemoans the apparent defeat of the program. Meanwhile Senator-elect James L. Buckley and James Jackson Kilpatrick rejoice. Senator Barry Goldwater writes dolefully that SST has been defeated as the result of the Big Lie. Leaving the right wing in the United States sorely vexed. One might say that on SST, American conservatives are being permitted what the English parliamentarians call a Free Vote.

Concerning the program, a few observations:

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