Firing Line had celebrated its 20th anniversary with three hour-long anthologies. For the 25th, the excerpts are triple-distilled into one glorious half-hour, framed by brief comments by Messrs. Buckley and Kinsley. Two of the excerpts remind us that not only does Firing Line comment on events, occasionally it shapes them: the Panama Canal debate may have been a factor in Ronald Reagan's victory in 1980; and it was on the Republican candidates' debate in 1988 that George Bush referred to Pete du Pont as "Pierre." One sample from the new material: WFB: "Norman Thomas ... I really didn't like him.... I think I didn't like him because he always understood himself to occupy the entire spiritual stage. Anybody who was on the other side wasn't simply wrong, he was evil."