The Press: Angry Voice on the Right

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In a labyrinth of double negatives, the National Review's Buckley describes segregation as "not intrinsically immoral." He encourages sit-in demonstrations against segregation, but at the same time he violently opposes compelling school integration by law. The magazine is against the graduated income tax, the inheritance tax, centralized government, and Dr. Albert Schweitzer, whose theology, according to a book review published in the Sept. 10 issue, is more destructive than the H-bomb.

Last week Editor in Chief Buckley expressed confidence that in the future, conservatism could only move upward. Already, he said, National Review has sparked a conservative revival among U.S. college students: "It is easy to pooh-pooh the fact that the party of the right is now the largest party in the Political Union at Yale, but it's very important. The point is we're humming."