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Letter
Letter: Buckley’s Boston bombast
..., January 27), it was William F Buckley Jr, the American conservative writer, who quipped: “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people...
February 2, 2024
HTSI
Sci-fi books are taking off again
...Spotlighting stories of other planets, fantasy utopias, gothic and dystopian fiction by authors including HG Wells, Philip K Dick, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr, and William Gibson, Wessells highlights how...
January 11, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Janan Ganesh
When politics wasn’t a team sport
...If his 1968 debates with the conservative William Buckley Jr still grip us, it is because of the two men’s underlying oneness, not the superficial Democrat vs Republican framing.Best of Enemies, James Graham...
December 2, 2022
InterviewTheatre
When American ideologies collide: James Graham on his play Best of Enemies
...But that benign conclusion was never likely to result from the series of encounters between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr during the explosive US political party conventions of 1968, the true story...
November 10, 2022
The indictment of Donald Trump
Susan vs Susan: heavyweight lawyers face off over Trump indictment
...Kennedy Jr was forced to prove himself worthy....
April 2, 2023
The Weekend Essay
The real Rino: Trump vs conservatism
...It seems a fair bet that the philosophical revivalists of American conservatism in the 1950s and ’60s — political theorist and social critic Russell Kirk and William F Buckley Jr, the National Review editor...
September 2, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2022
Best theatre shows of 2022
...It focuses on the barbed late-night TV debates in 1968 between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch-conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr, which catapulted the struggling ABC network...
December 28, 2022
ReviewTheatre
Best of Enemies — James Graham’s gripping culture-war drama
...In the political uproar and shaking certainties, the US television network ABC tries to boost poor ratings with a series of late-night debates between arch-conservative William F Buckley Jr and maverick...
December 10, 2021
ReviewTheatre
Five stars for Best of Enemies, a scintillating, perfectly-timed play
...In this case it’s 1968 and the launch of a series of late-night television debates between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr....
December 1, 2022
Robert Armstrong
You can now wear what you want to work
...Well, news flash: the train of history is not stopping, not for William F Buckley Jr, and not for me. Indeed, the pandemic has caused it to accelerate....
August 24, 2021
ReviewTheatre
Our Generation — verbatim drama fizzes with energy at the National Theatre
...One sizzling recent example was James Graham’s Best of Enemies at London’s Young Vic, which dramatised genuine debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr....
March 3, 2022
FT Magazine
In 1961, MLK taught a college class. Its syllabus might be contentious today
...Late in 1961, Martin Luther King Jr took a breather....
February 26, 2022
Janan Ganesh
How conservatives lost the culture war
...In a now inconceivable piece of broadcasting, the ABC network set the writers William Buckley and Gore Vidal against each other in a saga of debates....
June 24, 2020
The Art Market
Fugitive art dealer Inigo Philbrick captured in South Pacific
...If convicted he might have to trade in his jet-set life for a drab federal prison cell,” said FBI assistant director William F Sweeney Jr in a statement....
June 18, 2020
Crossword
Crossword and Polymath competitions suspended
...London Crossword 16,278: Peter Bromwich, Birmingham; James Reid, Fife, Scotland; EASherratt, Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F...
June 5, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Life & Arts
Anne Applebaum: revenge of the Never-Trumpers
...At least at the high end, voters as well as politicians listened to William F Buckley in the National Review or George Will in the Washington Post. The election of 2016 proved that was no longer true....
July 10, 2020
FT Magazine
A new exhibition explores masculinity, from the tough to the tender
..., majority leader of the Senate, Washington, DC, March 2 1976; Nelson Rockefeller, US vice-president, New York, June 28 1976; Emanuel Celler, former US congressman (New York), New York, August 12 1976; F...
January 31, 2020
ReviewLife & Arts
Podcast — Slow Burn is an electrifying portrait of a political scandal
...Fans of political history pods will find much to enjoy in The RFK Tapes, a documentary series from the creators of Crimetown about the murder of Robert F....
August 19, 2018
FT SeriesSummer Books 2019
Summer books of 2019: Economics
...Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its Lessons, by Ben S Bernanke, Timothy F Geithner and Henry M Paulson Jr, Penguin, RRP$16/Profile, RRP£9.99 If what these three men did during the financial crisis...
June 21, 2019
ObituaryProperty sector
Tom Wolfe, writer, 1930-2018
...Even the conservative polemicist, William F Buckley, was lost in admiration for his use of words....
May 15, 2018
Life & Arts
Barack Obama’s presidential library: beyond the archetype
...The library has been designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, and has raised a few eyebrows....
June 5, 2017
Tony Barber
A youthful crop of leaders succeed Europe’s failed generation
...John F Kennedy was 43 when he became president in 1961. Martin Luther King, Jr, was 34 when he made his “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963....
July 6, 2017
Special ReportFT Health: Vaccines
Trump era strengthens the vaccine doubters’ resolve
...In January, it was widely reported that Robert F Kennedy Jr, a lawyer, nephew of John F Kennedy and an anti-vaccine activist, had said Mr Trump, then president-elect, had asked him to head a commission on...
April 18, 2017
Life & Arts
The mane attraction: Cumberland Island catches eye of developers
...In 1996, John F Kennedy Jr, the son of the late president, chose Cumberland Island as the location for his wedding to Carolyn Bessette....
April 21, 2017
FT Magazine
Chiwetel Ejiofor on Shakespeare, race and the Marvel universe
...“It was the actor’s insecurity of not wanting to do something that in the end one could look on and think, ‘God, that was such an important project and you f***ed it up.’”...
October 14, 2016

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