If you’re wondering how TV got the way it is today, go back to 1968, when ABC, struggling for ratings against the dominance of CBS and NBC, defied convention by putting two erudite men from opposite ...

Gore Vidal (1925-2012) is one of those rare but regularly appearing types on the U.S. literary landscape who tried to make a wholesome contribution to the life of the nation, but having a classicist's ...

The following is an excerpt from Passionate Outlier: Gay Writers and Allies on Their Work by Frank Pizzoli and now available from Rebel Satori Press. Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing ...

For decades, William F. Buckley Jr. was a one-of-a-kind character: an author and columnist, and a celebrity intellectual. He hosted a TV debate show, "Firing Line," and was often a guest on late night ...

William F Buckley Jr was, above all else, a debater. He’s perhaps best known today for jousting with the liberal writer Gore Vidal in 1968 during the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.

By the mid-1960s, the presidential conventions had turned into full-fledged TV events, but ABC was dead last in the ratings. In order to spice up their convention coverage, ABC executives invited two ...