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On September 11, 1960, with nearly one hundred like-minded intellectual activists and agitators in the living room of his Sharon, Connecticut home, William F. Buckley Jr. created Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), his third seminal contribution to conservatism, after having written God and Man at Yale (1951) and having founded National Review (1955). It is an event long lost on a generation of high-minded young conservatives now raised on short memories. And low battery power.
Much of the "The
On September 11, 1960, with nearly one hundred like-minded intellectual activists and agitators in the living room of his Sharon, Connecticut home, William F. Buckley Jr. created Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), his third seminal contribution to conservatism, after having written God and Man at Yale (1951) and having founded National Review (1955). It is an event long lost on a generation of high-minded young conservatives now raised on short memories. And low battery power.
Much of the "The…