Weekend roundup of Encounter authors in print and online media:

The Unbought Grace of Life, City Journal, by Myron Magnet
“When I saw a headline a few months ago, A WORLD WITHOUT BILL BUCKLEY, my blood ran cold. A smaller, drabber world indeed, I thought. The appropriately adulatory text (a book review, as I recall) calmed me down, but anyone who had seen Bill recently knew that the smaller, drabber world was at hand…”

William F. Buckley Jr., Remembered, FrontPage Magazine, by David Horowitz
“Dear Bill,

It’s been twenty years since we both went up to Dartmouth to speak in support of the Darthmouth Review students whose battle was an early harbinger of the conservative tide that it is sweeping the campuses today…”

Man of Manifold Marvels, National Review Online, by Norman Podhoretz
“Nearly half a century ago, when I had only just joined the staff of Commentary as a lowly assistant editor, I scored a great coup by persuading Dwight Macdonald, one of the liveliest and wittiest polemicists of the day, to write an article about the first ten issues of a new magazine called National Review...”

Buckley Wasn’t a Conservative Catholic, Get Religion, by Mark Stricherz
“The death of William F. Buckley Jr. raises the question of what journalists mean when they use words such as conservative and liberal. Buckley was a Catholic and a conservative. But was he a Catholic conservative?…”

Will the State Department Side with American Terror Victims or Yasser Arafat?, National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy
“After nearly 3,000 Americans were murdered in the atrocities of September 11, 2001, President Bush boldly announced that the United States would not distinguish between terror networks and the regimes that support them. They would all be regarded as hostile and dealt with accordingly…”

Cold Water on “Global Warming, National Review Online, by Thomas Sowell
“It has almost become something of a joke when some “global warming” conference has to be cancelled because of a snowstorm or bitterly cold weather. But stampedes and hysteria are no joke — and creating stampedes and hysteria has become a major activity of those hyping a global-warming “crisis.”…”

Fast Forward to 2009, National Review Online, by Victor Davis Hanson
“When President George Bush leaves office, will America once again be liked by most of the world? Not necessarily, since most current problems are either already getting better or not our fault. When the next president takes office in January 2009, he or she will be confronted by a world that either understandably appreciates America or for self-interested reasons will challenge it…”