[Prospero]

I despise NR's rush to sack (no pun intended), more than once, some fine writers - especially one's not, strictly speaking, actually working for them - in recent years, for committing nothing more than political incorrectness and mostly to placate brainless reactionaries among the bigoted effete.

I suppose they would have fired Buckley for telling Vidal to perform a sexually impossible act, had he not been co-owner, and certainly Sobran, for example.

On the other hand, not everyone associated with the magazine I no longer subscribe to is an ass.

[Servant of the Cross]

On the other hand, not everyone associated with the magazine I no longer subscribe to is an ass.

Exactly. Andrew C. McCarthy is at the top of my list. And there are several others who have regular great articles.