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Entry: William F. Buckley Jr. as I Knew Him Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/william_f_buckley_as_i_knew_him#18273 Post contents: WFB once said that he would rather be ruled by the first 2000 names in the Boston telephone directory than the entire Harvard faculty. Grant Havers would rather have us ruled by the likes of Allan Bloom, Irving Kristol and David Frum. In point of fact, every vital culture has an element of populism. Presently, a rootless, cosmopolitan elite dominates America. And that elite is not one based on merit, but on a combination of cunning amorality and a rigging of the game. It is only among a remnant of the common folk that one can find any fragment of the “values” of the past. A new leadership class must be created from that remnant, and it must appeal to those among the common folk from which it came to reject the illegitimate elites and their “project” of global democracy. Sent at: 2008 07 04