Didn't WFB tell Lingua Franca before its demise that if he were a young today, he'd be a socialist, maybe even communist? There's long been a weird fascination with the sexy world of socialists by public members of the right, doubtless colored by the likes of Burnham and Chambers in their early ranks. Buckley's resisted this since forever, but in recent years he's clearly loosened up. For whatever that's worth.
Dennis