Education: Rebel in Reverse

One sour note sounded at Yale's family reunion last week (see above). It came from the brassy trumpet of a 25-year-old alumnus, William F. Buckley Jr. As chairman of Yale's Daily News in 1949-50, Buckley had been a sort of rebel in reverseĀ—a fire-eating youthful conservative. Last week, in a book called God and Man at Yale (Henry Regnery; $3.50), he accused Yale in particular, and other universities in general, of sabotaging God and capitalism alike.

Author Buckley believes that "the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world ....

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