Sam Tanenhaus joins me for a deep dive into the college career of friend of the pod, William F. Buckley Jr., and his 1951 shot that fired the campus wars: God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom."

References mentioned this episode:

• Sam Tanenhaus. 2025. Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. Penguin Random House.
• Sam Tanenhaus. 1998. Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. Penguin Random House. (Winner of the LA Times Book Prize and a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize!)
• Heather Hendershot. 2016. Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line. HarperCollins. 
• Beverly Gage. 2022. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Viking. (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and LA Times Book Prize!)
• Stendhal. 1839. The Charterhouse of Parma. 
• Norman Mailer. November 1960. “Superman comes to the supermarket.” Esquire.

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