Panelists will discuss the continuing impact of Buckley's thought and the future of American conservatism.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum caused a stir last month when he labeled college campuses "indoctrination mills" that enforce a strict adherence to "politically correct left doctrine." For conservatives, Mr. Santorum might as well have called the sky blue. But from the way liberal pundits pounced on his remarks, you'd think he had said something profoundly indecent.

William F. Buckley Jr. greatly influenced modern conservatism and will be missed dearly.

A transcript of Francis H. Buckley's March 2006 Bradley Lecture Series speech.

The battle has begun. The first view of this change is the outcry over the Bush nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

On Saturday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry got into the race for the GOP presidential nomination, and within 24 hours, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty got out. Perry didn't exactly chase Pawlenty out of the race; the Iowa straw poll (in which T-Paw finished a distant third) did that. But the two developments are closely related. They're linked by the fact that Barack Obama is very beatable.

If the Endangered Species Act were applied uniformly to all of the species in the US that are potential candidates for its reach, Congress would swiftly repeal it. The act's potential costs are often too high to enforce aggressively.