Replies

No. National Interest is not part of NRO. The National Interest was founded by famous neoconservative Irving Kristol. It was edited for years by Owen Harries but is now edited by Jacob Heilbrunn. It is quintessentially neoconservative and has produced scholarly articles for years on foreign affairs.

NRO is National Review Online. It was founded by Bill Buckley as a Catholic conservative magazine. Buckely was a far more towering figure that Irving Kristol and National Review has mostly been a greater force in the world.

After John McLaughlin’s excellent tenure in the 1980s before Rich Lowry came in. Rich rejected Buckley’s form of conservative for the Neo-con perspective of National Interest and the paleo-conservative views of Commentary during the period when Norman Podhoretz was editor (1960 to 1995).

Rich Lowry is a decidedly dimmer intellectual bulb than his predecessor John McLaughlin and certainly no where in the same universe as Bill Buckely.

NRO became the champion of the Never Trumpers under Lowry, forever relegating it to the comedy section of conservative intellectual thought.