“While…Bill and National Review…have not succeeded in preventing certain bad things from happening in the world, nonetheless [they]…have reminded people…of what the core of Western civilziation is all about, what the core of America is all about, what kind of standard we should be aiming for,” says Linda Bridges, co-editor of Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus.