Well worth a look ...

... Paul Davis On Crime: A Review of 'Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr And The Rise Of American Conservatism'.

... it was no accident that one of his collections of articles and columns, “Happy Days Were Here Again,” was subtitled “Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist,” for Buckley, again like his father, was primarily a libertarian rather than what is today called a social conservative. Still, he admired conservatives such as Russell Kirk (author of the landmark 1953 work, “The Conservative Mind”), shared some of their key beliefs and saw them as valuable allies within the movement he sought to forge.