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William F. Buckley Jr., founder of the political magazine National Review and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, has died at the age of 82. According to a post on the National Review Web site Buckley passed away overnight while working in his study at his Stamford, Connecticut home. Buckley had served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, attended Yale University following World War II and after graduating he spent a brief spell in the CIA. By 1955 Buckley founded, along with Frank Meyer, the National Review which served to promote American conservatism. Throughout his lifetime Buckley devoted himself to editing and penning numerous volumes of fiction and non fiction works. Kathryn Jean Lopez, a contributor to the National Review, published a post on the site that read: I'm devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder William F. Buckley Jr., died overnight in his study in Stamford, Connecticut. After year of illness, he died while at work; if he had

Ross Douthat is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He is the author of Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (Hyperion, 2005), and the co-author, with Reihan Salam, of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class And Save the American Dream (Doubleday, 2008). He is the film critic for National Review, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, GQ, Slate, and other publications. A native of New Haven, Connecticut, he now lives in Washington D.C.

Mr. Pryce-Jones is a journalist and writer with an MA in modern history from Magdalen College, Oxford. He has been the literary editor of major publications, a newspaper correspondent and visiting professor at California State College, University of California at Berkeley, and others. Since June 1999 Pryce-Jones has been the senior editor of the National Review. He is the author of a number of important books on the fall of the Former Soviet Union, as well as "The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs".

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Jonah Goldberg is a contributing editor to National Review and was the founding editor of "National Review Online." He is a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times and his syndicated column appears regularly in the Chicago Tribune, New York Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington Examiner, Miami Herald, Manchester Union Leader and scores of other newspapers. Goldberg is currently a member of the Board of Contributors to USA Today. In the past he's served as a media critic for both Brill's Content and The American Enterprise and a Washington Columnist for the Times of London. He has written about politics and culture for The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The LA Times, Commentary, The Public Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, Slate, TheStreet.com, New York Post, Women's Quarterly and Food and Wine and other publications. Goldberg was a regular political commentator on CNN and has served as a guest host on "Crossfire" and as a regular panelist on Wolf Blitzer's "Late Edition." Other television appearances include "Good Morning America," "Larry King Live," "Today," "Nightline," "Hardball with Chris Matthews," "Politically Incorrect," "Special Report with Brit Hume," "Geraldo," "NBC Nightly News" and numerous other television and radio programs. He was a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C. A former senior producer of the award-winning series "Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg" on PBS, he has written and produced several PBS documentaries and specials. He is the 2001 winner of the prestigious Lowell Thomas Award.

Larry is CEO of Kudlow & Co. LLC, an economic and investment research firm. He hosts Kudlow & Company, a nightly TV series for CNBC. He's also a contributing editor at National Review, a nationally syndicated columnist and author of American Abundance: The New Economic and Moral Prosperity. Larry attended the University of Rochester, and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His first job was as a junior economist at the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

Michael Potemra was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1964, and spent his childhood years in Montreal, Canada. He received a B.A. in philosophy at the Catholic University of America. He served as an aide to President Reagan, as a research assistant in the White House speechwriting office. He subsequently worked at President Reagan's grassroots PAC, the Citizens for America, and as speechwriter to three U.S. Senators (Kasten of Wisconsin, Durenberger of Minnesota, and DeWine of Ohio). Since August 1999 he has been the Deputy Managing Editor of National Review. He also writes a monthly books column for National Review. He loves America, freedom, and cats.

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Dr Frantz Clermont is a visiting speech scientist at J P French Associates where he is currently conducting research in three major areas of speech science and technology: (1) forensic-phonetic characterisation of speaker variability; (2) acoustic-phonetic parameterisation and modelling of vowels and diphthongs; and (3) vocal-tract shape estimation from speech signals. Dr Clermont has held engineering posts in America and Canada and, more recently, senior academic posts in Australia, Japan, France and Sweden. He has published over 50 refereed articles in the field of speech science and technology, which have appeared in international journals and conference proceedings. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a foundation member of the Australian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), a member of the National Review Board for ASSTA, and both a member of and a reviewer for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.