Playboy Contributing Editor James Rosen has written an interesting and perceptive article for RealClearPolitics.com discussing the relationship between two of modern publishing’s most influential figures: Hugh M. Hefner and William F. Buckley Jr., a pair of commanding contemporaries who are seldom linked but who actually have a strong connection.
"William F. Buckley, Jr., who died February 27 at age eighty-two, was many things: graduate, and scourge, of Yale University; architect of the modern American conservative movement; founder of National Review; author of fifty books and 5,600 syndicated newspaper columns; host of television's Firing Line (1,054 episodes recorded between 1966 and 1999); peerless debater and lecturer; spy and bestselling spy novelist; millionaire yachtsman; harpsichordist and pianist; bon vivant and...Playboy contributor?"
"Yes, in a union difficult to imagine involving any of today's leading conservatives, a group more prone to moralistic bombast than Buckley--though not, assuredly, any more moral, or resonant--the bard of East 73rd Street wrote for Hugh Hefner's oft-vilified Playboy, on and off, for almost four decades, on topics ranging from 'the Negro male' and Nikita Khrushchev to Oprah Winfrey, the Internet, and Y2K.’’
To read all of James’ insightful article, click here.
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