NEWSWEEK: COVER: Mr. Right, R.I.P.
2 Mar 2008 15:31 Africa/Lagos [b]NEWSWEEK: COVER: Mr. Right, R.I.P. [/b] NEWSWEEK LOOKS AT WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.'S CONSERVATISM AND HOW IT'S FALLING APART TODAY DAVID BROOKS ON BUCKLEY: 'He changed the personality of conservatism.' MICHAEL GERSON: 'The loss to conservatism and to America is real ... Buckley Jr. leaves an unfilled spot where wit and joy once stood.' NEW YORK, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- In the current issue of Newsweek, Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas looks at how William F. Buckley Jr. largely inspired and held together the conservative movement that is collapsing today. "He changed the personality of conservatism," New York Times columnist David Brooks tells Newsweek. "It had been sort of negative, and he made it smart and sophisticated and pushed out all these oddballs and created a movement." More recently, says Brooks, conservatism has "lost something." In the conservatism spawned by talk radio and TV, the hater...