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The publication was founded in 1955 by the legendary gadfly William F. Buckley Jr. as a salon for the various right-leaning fraternities in American life: fire-eating libertarians, orthodox Catholics, conspiratorial anti-communists.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2025

Polishing off one of McIntosh’s half-smokes isn’t an exercise in fire-eating, as with some interpretations of D.C.’s defining link.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2015

A couple days ago I found myself sitting in a digital cave with an enormous fire-eating hell-demon.

From Scientific American • Jan. 9, 2014

Evening acts will include carols, fire-eating and unicycling – plus Edward Lear poetry to help you dance by the light of the moon.

From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2012

What if those fire-eating secessionists found out she was spying on them?

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan