Young Americans for Freedom--which had been founded at Mr. Buckley's family

home in Sharon, Conn., with its charter document, "The Sharon Statement," written by M. Stanton Evans--was celebrating its 15th anniversary in Chicago this weekend, although, as WFB puts it, about all they had to celebrate was "their own survival and their remarkably good spirits." Certainly there wasn't much to celebrate on the national or international political scene; and while the campuses had calmed down, they were still, as Mr. Docksai reports, "liberal finishing schools." (Not that that's all bad: as Mr. Donatelli reports, "When they wanted the conservative viewpoint, they'd come to me. You know, I'm a 20-year-old kid at the time. And so it makes one, I think, become mature much faster.") This conversation among comrades-in-arms bounces back and forth from the campuses to grown-up politics in a pleasant 15-handed ping-pong match.