From the Corner:

I’m devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder William F. Buckley Jr., died this morning in his study in Stamford, Connecticut.
He died while at work; if he had been given a choice on how to depart this world, I suspect that would have been exactly it. At home, still devoted to the war of ideas.

I’m so sad to see such a great thinker lost in the middle of the political season. Conservatives have lost a brilliant spokesman for conservatism. Prayers for those at National Review and his family and many friends.