WASHINGTON — Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater lost the 1964 presidential election in a landslide, but that didn’t stop veterans of his campaign from claiming victory all these years later. An 8-year-old ...

Every time a politician calls himself maverick, the ghost of Barry Goldwater likely scoffs. No one could buck the party line like the one-time presidential candidate and Arizona native. Though he ...

Barry Goldwater would hardly recognize the “conservatism” now marketed by Trump and Fox News. Goldwater’s conservatism was a philosophy of limited government, personal liberty, fiscal restraint, and a ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Fifty Julys ago, up the road near San Francisco, in the unfortunately named Cow Palace, the Republican National Convention gave its presidential nomination to Arizona Sen. Barry ...

Republican senatorial candidate Rand Paul has gotten in hot water recently over his views on the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act. Paul, though reiterating his personal hatred of discrimination, ...

That, of course, was Barry Goldwater, who in the presidential campaign 60 years ago memorably declared, “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” ...