William F. Buckley

This exclusive clip from the documentary ‘Best of Enemies,’ about the famous ’68 debates between Buckley and Vidal, explains how America became separated along political lines.

The liberal and conservative titans famously tore into each other in an ABC confrontation in 1968. A brilliant documentary reveals that flashpoint's bitter legacy--both personal, and for punditry in general.

In the 1960s, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley were having the same political arguments we’re having today—and had a lot more fun making them.

Vidal called Buckley a 'crypto-Nazi' and Buckley threatened to ‘sock you in your goddamn face.’ The Sundance documentary ‘Best of Enemies’ goes inside the famous feud.

As CPAC continues its right-wing celebration this weekend, The Daily Beast’s Christopher Buckley (politely) takes on his first cousin, Brent Bozell III, and the other signers of the Mount Vernon Statement, for trying to redefine conservatism by updating his father’s original manifesto—when all they’re really doing is bashing Obama.

The MSNBC host celebrates Christopher Buckley’s lively tribute to his parents—and says Losing Mum and Pup answers JFK’s key question about biography: What were they really like?

From Palin and Blago to the trillion-dollar stimulus, if only we could know what he would make of all this.