“William F. Buckley famously said he’d rather trust the government of the United States to the first 400 names in the Boston phone book than the faculty of Harvard University.”
And that was back in the day that Harvard truly was one of the great universities of the world!
I continue to wonder how people of brilliant intelligence like William F. Buckley can believe that a Jewish man was the creator of the universe.
I vaguely remember the (perhaps apocryphal) anecdote about Ayn Rand and WFB. She reportedly said that he was too intelligent to believe in God. He never spoke to her again.
Wow, that’s funny, but I believe it!
A tragedy, though, that so many conservatives rejected Rand because of her atheism when they should have aligned with her. It would have made the conservative movement stronger.