ELITE VS. ELITE: BUNDY ON BUCKLEY

I stumbled across a reference to McGeorge Bundy's review of William F. Buckley's God and Man at Yale and I found that it's online at the Atlantic.  Bundy was at least the intellectual peer of Buckley and he also went to Yale undergrad.  His review points out what is now a common weakness of conservative books:

The recently published book, God and Man at Yale (Regnery, $3.50), written by William F. Buckley, Jr., a 1950 graduate of Yale University, is a savage attack on that institution as a hotbed of "atheism" and "collectivism." As a believer in God, a Republican, and a Yale graduate, I find the book is dishonest in its use of facts, false in its theory, and a discredit to its author and the writer of its introduction.

In summary, Mr. Buckley's basic technique is that of a pretended firsthand report on the opinions and attitudes of Yale's teachers and textbooks, in which quotations and misquotations are given whatever meaning Mr. Buckley chooses to give them and not the meaning their authors intended. This method is dishonest.