Submissions and Reposting

The Buckley Club guidelines

This has been updated on 3/23/2017

There’s been an uptick in interest in submitting to The Buckley Club, so we’ve decided to make the guidelines public. All subject to change. These do not encompass the complete editorial standards.

Steps to submit an article:

1. First time submitting: Send an email to thebuckleyclub@gmail.com. Attach the draft.
2. If we want the piece, we’ll get you added as a writer. If you have a Medium account send us that, if not set one up. It’s pretty easy, just log in with a Twitter or Facebook account and your bio gets imported. Make sure your account has a professional photo and a reasonable sounding name.
3. Submit the draft. For more on how to submit to a Medium publication, please see here. Don’t publish, just leave it as draft. Notify one of the editors you’ve submitted. (Note: you can only submit on a desktop, not mobile.)
4. Article goes through the editing process.
5. Final review- you’ll always get final approval, unless you give prior approval.

Once you’ve posted once, you can start from step 3.

Note on article length: There are no hard rules, but the most successful articles are usually in the 600–1200 word range.

Content

The Buckley Club will remain in the opposition to Trump’s presidency. We may applaud him if he does anything right, but from the opposition. This above all will define if an article gets accepted.

Other rules:

• No profanity. Obviously this includes four letter words but also casual discussions of sex and crass language should be limited and kept to relevance to subject matter.
• Religion. We all have beliefs. This isn’t a platform for them. The reason for this is that some conservative blogs become overly Christian in way that limits the audience.
• Our stance is mainstream conservatism. To that end, we won’t publish advocacy of social liberalism, isolationist foreign policy or the like. But we would like to reach out to moderates and liberals and build a community around where we agree on culture and inclusiveness.

If you aren’t sure if an article fits, just ask us.

Cross Posting:

If an article has originally been posted elsewhere you must notify us. After being posted on The Buckley Club, you may re-post it elsewhere provided credit is given as well as a link to the original.

In addition, we may allow other publications to repost content under the same arrangement. When submitting, you can opt out of this.

If you are a publication interested is reposting our content please contact us via email.

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Motivation

I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and liberals at bay. And the nation free. — William F. Buckley, Up from Liberalism (1959).