It is widely reported that William F. Buckley is a conservative, and since the term is almost indefinable, the report may hold. If men divide, as they do, on the question whether it is wiser to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of, then to prefer the known to unknown and quite likely greater horror is to be conservative. Buckley in these four proposals eschews dreams of substantive but potentially perilous change to settle for mere procedural mitigation of some of the graver defects in welfare, tax, education, and crime policy. . . .