“He and Jonah Goldberg equally suck”
IIRC Rich Lowry was a 19 yr old GOP fratboy when Bill Buckley gave him the keys to National Review. Lowry was the first iteration of Buckley wrecking NR before Trixie Goldberg’s porky son Jonah finished the job.
Unless you had been reading NR by the Carter years you can’t appreciate how great NR once was before the Bush toadies got hold of it.
By the end of the Reagan years the much smaller Chronicles magazine was already forshadowing what we would eventually call MAGA; read Sam Francis’ old columns and you see it immediately. Ideas precede political movements by decades.
Chronicles = GOAT
ABBEVILLE GOOD TOO
VDARE I like but seems to be less active now