McGeorge Bundy, wrote a withering review in the Atlantic Monthly that noted the irony of a Catholic calling for a return to religious traditionalism at Yale. Buckley's support for laissezfaire was, Bundy added, far more extreme than that of the academics he and his allies cited for support. Positions that Buckley labeled “radicalism” could be found “in the work of such men as Hayek,” and “if Mr. Buckley read Lippmann and Knight, he would be horrifi ed.”

Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, loc. 352