Whilst studying fallacies in a second-semester English class at Mega State University, I was exposed to a particularly fallacy-laden essay by renowned drug-legalization advocate and National Review editor William F. Buckley, from back when he was fervently anti-legalization. In a more advanced English class at Suburb Community College, I’m now required to write an analysis of a fallacious argument of my choosing. I’ve been straining to find one that I feel I can make a good paper out of, and in fact have missed the rough-draft deadline looking for a suitable essay. Suddenly I remembered that piece, which I actually never analyzed formally before.
One problem: Mr. Buckley has fought through hell and high water to clear his name in the pro-legalization camp, to the point where it’s nigh impossible to find his essays in favor of the War on Drugs. I need to find those essays. Can anyone help me?
Searching ProQuest Historical Newspapers, Buckley put out a “white paper” about drugs during his run against John Lindsay for Mayor of NYC in Oct, 1965. I can’t say that this is what you want. Perhaps just a starting point.
Still haven’t found it. Bumping, as my essay is due tomorrow. Can anyone help out here?
You mean Bill snuck into every library in the US and personally clipped those articles out?
Seriously. Have you tried the old-fashioned "Reader’s Guide to Periodic Literature for articles by Buckley? Did you try to find a copy of the white paper I brought up?
Go to the library. Buckley has been publishing his essays in his own magazine, The National Review, for fifty years. As samclem said, these can be easily located in the Reader’s Guide to Periodic Literature. I have subscribed to The National Review for about fifteen years, during which time Buckley has consistently advocated abandoning the “war on drugs”, so I would assume an essay supporting the opposite view would be from the 80s or earlier. This would be long before Buckley’s essays were placed on the internet by him, although you may find it on someone else’s site. Buckley has not hesitated to change his mind in print on other subjects. To suggest that he has attempted to suppress evidence of a differing previous position seems somewhat silly.