{"id":2216149,"date":"2024-04-09T03:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T07:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pbss-william-f-buckley-documentary-highlights-the-conservative-crusaders-faith\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T03:15:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T07:15:48","slug":"pbss-william-f-buckley-documentary-highlights-the-conservative-crusaders-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pbss-william-f-buckley-documentary-highlights-the-conservative-crusaders-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS explores the faith of conservative icon William F. Buckley in new documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpbss-william-f-buckley-documentary-highlights-the-conservative-crusaders-faith%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2216149&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>PBS presents &#8220;The Incomparable Mr. Buckley,&#8221; a documentary on \u200cWilliam F. Buckley \u2062Jr. from \u20621966 to 1999,\u200c his show &#8220;Firing Line&#8221; was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korean-sentenced-to-death-for-smuggling-squid-game\/\" title=\"North Korean Sentenced to Death for Smuggling Squid Game\">national hit<\/a>. The film emphasizes Buckley&#8217;s \u200cdeep faith, guiding his bold expressions on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-men-found-not-guilty-in-whitmer-kidnapping-plot\/\" title=\"Three men acquitted in Whitmer kidnapping scheme.\">societal\u2062 issues<\/a>. His work, &#8220;God \u2064and Man at Yale,&#8221; exposed \u200bleftist \u200cideals in academia, warning\u2063 against their impact on education and society. PBS showcases &#8220;The Incomparable Mr. Buckley,&#8221; a documentary\u200b highlighting William F. \u2062Buckley Jr. and his renowned show &#8220;Firing Line&#8221;\u2062 from 1966 to 1999.\u2062 The film underlines Buckley&#8217;s\u2064 profound faith, shaping his outspoken stance on social matters. Moreover, his influential work &#8220;God and Man at Yale&#8221; unveiled leftist ideologies in academia, \u2062cautioning about their\u200c repercussions on education and \u2062society.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>PBS has a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americanmasters\/who-was-william-f-buckley-jr-nmyizx\/32353\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">documentary<\/a> on the late William F. Buckley Jr., \u201cThe Incomparable Mr. Buckley,\u201d airing on stations across the country. From 1966 to 1999, his show, \u201cFiring Line,\u201d which debated the great issues of the time, was a staple on PBS stations nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-documentary-highlights-regret-for-three-detransitioned-women\/\" title=\"New Documentary Highlights Regret For Three Detransitioned Women\">documentary highlights<\/a>, one of the most important things that made \u201cBill,\u201d as he was known to his friends, so incomparable, was his strong and unwavering faith. It was that faith that enabled him to speak boldly, unapologetically, and ultimately prophetically, about the issues of his time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1772737012\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4cd4b2d51b633a8c96d2336358249f84 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4cd4b2d51b633a8c96d2336358249f84\"><\/div>\n<p>In 1997, he would <a href=\"https:\/\/eppc.org\/publication\/buckley-on-belief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tell<\/a> Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, \u201cI like to think that Christianity is universally informative. Whatever you do, there is always something there that consoles, guides, or inhibits.\u201d\u00a0For Bill, his faith was his guiding star, which influenced his worldview and his relationships \u2014 treating those with whom he disagreed with dignity and respect. As a result, he was able to build bridges with others rather than burn them.<\/p>\n<p>It was also that faith that led him to write his seminal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/God-Man-Yale-Superstitions-Academic\/dp\/1684512360\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1PCKS7U0J0MGM&#038;keywords=god+and+man+at+yale&#038;qid=1646321057&#038;sprefix=%2Caps%2C227&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">work<\/a> <em>God and Man at Yale<\/em> in 1951. In it, he first warned about the abandonment of the Judeo-Christian heritage in academia and how it would lead to the present national morass in which we find ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Bill was a devoted Catholic who believed faith was the foundation of higher education at Yale and in our nation. He saw it coming under increasing attack and felt strongly that he had to sound the alarm about what was not only happening at Yale but beginning to seep out into the hallowed halls of higher education across America \u2014 the rejection and replacement of those ideals with secularism, socialism, and government dependence.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>God and Man at Yale,<\/em> Bill peeled back the layers of the onion at Yale University and exposed its leftist core. As Richard Brookhiser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2011\/11\/god-and-man-yale-now-nro-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cYale in 1951 still pretended to be a bastion of capitalism and Christianity; Bill told the world this was a con, to keep alums sending their sons and their money to New Haven.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6242f3b61870558db2b2a2ca8fa23868 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6242f3b61870558db2b2a2ca8fa23868\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Frayed National Fabric<\/h2>\n<p>He also saw that with the left there was no room for debate. As he put it, \u201cThough liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.\u201d Those words turned out to be prophetic as we face the \u201ccancel culture\u201d of the 21st\u00a0century.<\/p>\n<p>Bill knew in his heart that it is religious faith that brings people together \u2014 regardless of political persuasion \u2014 and provides hope and healing. As that faith came under assault, was scorned, and was eventually attacked, our national fabric frayed with it. Our current poisonous political and cultural climate is the result.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, when <em>God and Man at Yale <\/em>was written, much of America remained blissfully ignorant of what was happening to their children as they entered the ivory towers of American academia. Once the 1960s arrived, they could be ignorant no more.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Yale alumni and administrators did not take kindly to Bill shedding light on what was going on. McGeorge Bundy, a Yale alumni, writing in The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/1951\/11\/the-attack-on-yale\/306724\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Atlantic Monthly<\/a>, said: \u201c<em>God and Man at Yale <\/em>has the somewhat larger significance that it is clearly an attempt to start an assault on the freedom of one of America\u2019s greatest and most conservative universities. \u2026 Certainly it will put the Yale authorities to an absurd amount of trouble in making answers to questions based on a set of charges that ought to be beneath contempt.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9f85961f251026c7c17dcd0810dbc49e fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9f85961f251026c7c17dcd0810dbc49e\"><\/div>\n<p>But Bill was right, and Bundy and others were wrong. The campus protests and the emergence of the radical left in academia, and then into all other aspects of society, all of which Bill warned about in the early 1950s, transformed American society from one that saw faith as a virtue into one that saw it as a vice.<\/p>\n<p>Brookhiser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2011\/11\/god-and-man-yale-now-nro-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">concluded,<\/a> \u201c<em>God and Man at Yale <\/em>is a standing invitation to get under the skin, and an example of how a bright kid once did it.\u201d Evidently, Buckley\u2019s words got under the skin of Mr. Bundy and others who thought Yale was still conservative and great. But that is what happens when one speaks truth in power \u2014 something Bill did repeatedly.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bill\u2019s Legacy<\/h2>\n<p>Bill Buckley\u2019s faith, and the words that came directly from it, is his true legacy. Because of Bill\u2019s strong Catholic faith, God was able to use him as an instrument to prophetically raise the alarm about what happens to a society when it abandons faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan is a sinner. Man can repent. God will forgive. That is so very different from the fashionable secular complement, which is: What is sin?\u201d Buckley wrote in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>It was Bill\u2019s faith that led him to live a remarkably successful, \u201cincomparable\u201d life. Any documentary on his life will miss the mark if it does not focus on this most essential part of his life and legacy, because ultimately it is learning about Bill\u2019s faith and how it shaped him that will fully inform the viewer about the man who was William F. Buckley Jr.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-596c2fd5e41dbf189ce9c1d0264c90db fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-596c2fd5e41dbf189ce9c1d0264c90db\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS airs &#8220;The Incomparable Mr. Buckley,&#8221; a documentary on late William F. Buckley Jr. The show &#8220;Firing Line&#8221; ran from 1966 to 1999, debating crucial topics nationwide. 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