(June 23, 2023—revised December 21, 2023) William Rusher, a dynamic force on the American right who passed away in 2011 after decades as comrade and...
Rusher at 100: Realism for the 21st Century
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William A. Rusher Centennial Project
“If Not Us, Who?”
If Not Us, Who? takes you on a journey into the life of William Rusher, a key player in shaping the modern conservative movement. Known for his long...
Bill’s Biography
William Rusher was an influential political strategist, commentator, and debater at the heart of the conservative movement in the second half of the...
Reforming Without Experience
"How can you have a reasonable agenda for redesigning the Environmental Protection Agency, when no conservative has ever served there? Reagan has...
Self-Reflection on Arguing
"I am a born interrupter—not, I hasten to say, because I want to be discourteous, but because my mind has raced ahead … to some crushing response...
Liberation through Individualism
"I began doing and saying what I wanted to do and say, and immediately experienced a great sense of liberation." Source: If Not Us, Who? William...
The Bureaucracy’s Drift
"I guess it is inevitable that most posts in government will be filled by the type of seaweed that drifts in and out with the tides of politics."...
Political Hopefulness amid Doubt
"I honestly don't know whether there is still time to turn this country around, but I do know that the man America will elect on November 4th...
Goldwater’s Campaign Messaging
"Goldwater's personal style, while ruggedly honest, was somewhat astringent and doctrinaire. In this connection, he was also badly served by his...
Media’s Reaction to Reagan
"Grudgingly, in partial explanation of their failure to damage Reagan seriously, the media adopted his admirers' enthusiastic description of him as...
Closing Reflections on America
"Happily, I am not ending the column with a gloomy conviction that America is heading to hell in a handbasket. On the contrary ... I think the...
Cyclical Nature of Politics
"Don't worry; there's a yin and a yang to politics." Source: If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement...
Advice for the Soviet Collapse
"Encourage the ailing Soviet system to (1) sit down, (2) lie down, and (3) die, in that order. It has started to sit down. This is not the time to...
Conflicted Loyalty in Espionage
"Every man feels a natural distaste for exposing others whose crimes, however great, seem after all no greater to him than the crimes of the one...
Personal Dislike of Exercise
"Exercising may make your day; it would assuredly ruin mine." Source: If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement...