{"id":4211,"date":"2008-02-28T09:12:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T16:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/they-didnt-exactly-break-the-mold-after-they-made-wfb\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T09:13:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T16:13:31","slug":"they-didnt-exactly-break-the-mold-after-they-made-wfb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/they-didnt-exactly-break-the-mold-after-they-made-wfb\/","title":{"rendered":"They Didn&#8217;t Exactly Break the Mold After They Made WFB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/william-f-buckley-jr-rip.html\">Sheldon Richman on the passing of William F. Buckley Jr.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Looking over his rich biography, I can&#8217;t help but take away the impression that one of his goals in life was to make the pro-liberty, anti-state movement safe \u00e2\u20ac\u201c unthreatening to the establishment. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>The primary consequence of his long career (which included a stint in the CIA) was to seduce budding radical libertarians into an insipid &#8220;hip&#8221; conservatism that functioned largely as a defender of big business and the intrusive national-security state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/legacy-watch\/\">Buckley did speak some truth to power<\/a> in his last years, though not when his dissent could have made a real difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheldon Richman on the passing of William F. Buckley Jr.: Looking over his rich biography, I can&#8217;t help but take away the impression that one of his goals in life was to make the pro-liberty, anti-state movement safe \u00e2\u20ac\u201c unthreatening to the establishment. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The primary consequence of his long career (which included a stint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-william-f-buckley","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}