American Jews and the Conservative Conscience

Bill Buckley’s In Search of Anti-Semitism is ostensibly a book about several figures, but it is, at its core, about one figure above all. “A great deal of space has been given to Pat Buchanan in this book,” Buckley tells us in its epilogue, adding that it “is obvious why this is so: he elected to run for President of the United States, and for that reason invited the fierce attention of his critics and defenders.” Buckley understood that central to his own legacy and leadership was the fact that American conservatism in general, and National Review in particular, had …

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