Quite right. One should add that anyone who has read one of Buckley’s Blackford Oakes spy novels would have expected this reaction, given that Buckley is not a hypocrite.
William F. Buckley, Jr.: “The charge by assorted gentry that James Webb is not qualified to serve as a U.S. senator from Virginia because there are lewdnesses in his published fiction rattles one’s faith in democracy.”
Indeed.
Of co…
Quite right. One should add that anyone who has read one of Buckley’s Blackford Oakes spy novels would have expected this reaction, given that Buckley is not a hypocrite.
Comment by James Joyner — Friday, November 3, 2024 @ 1:21 pm
Buckley on Webb Sex Scenes
William F. Buckley, Jr.: “The charge by assorted gentry that James Webb is not qualified to serve as a U.S. senator from Virginia because there are lewdnesses in his published fiction rattles one’s faith in democracy.”
Indeed.
Of co…
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