The Conservative Affirmation

Sixty years ago a maverick political scientist named Willmoore Kendall predicted the triumph of conservatism. His former Yale student William F. Buckley Jr. called him "one of the most superb and original political analysts of the 20th century," but even Buckley shook his head at what appeared to be Kendall's "baffling optimism." Brilliant and cantankerous, Kendall stood apart from the mainstream conservative movement. Today, half a century after his death, he is recognized as the philosoph...