Kathryn Jean Lopez posts in National Review‘s The Corner:
I?m devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder William F. Buckley Jr., died this morning in his study in Stamford, Connecticut.
He died while at work; if he had been given a choice on how to depart this world, I suspect that would have been exactly it. At home, still devoted to the war of ideas.
I never met WFB, though I grew up in the South Carolina town he loved (“I give greater honor to my mother for introducing me to Camden than for giving me birth,” I think he said). It was reading National Review as a high school student, house sitting for my history teacher, that introduced me to the beauty of conservative thought. Thanks and RIP, sir.
