As you put it so well, when William Buckley decided to make his name as a conservative intellectual, the phrase was an oxymoron (“The Buckley Effect,” March 1, 2008). True. I remember his early years pretty well. But an oxymoron it still is in spite of all these years. Imagine, he has such lights as Ronald Regan and George Bush Junior to his name! Both of them incapable of producing a single thought, let alone an idea, even under duress, they actually represent Buckley’s intellectual prowess rather well. Nay, perfectly. If there is any idea Buckley will ever represent, it is the one you inadvertently point out in your happy-go-lucky eulogy: that of oxymoron. Yup. William Buckley in a nutshell.