The Buckley Myth

Buckley first became known for attacking Yale just after he graduated from the school. In God and Man at Yale (1951), he argued that a university should get its authority from being in loco parentis, and since his parent, the oil millionaire William F. Buckley, Sr., had raised him to believe in Christianity and the free market, Yale should have reinforced those religious and economic beliefs. Since it did not do so, his father and other parents should stop donating to Yale.