Buckley wasn’t who a lot of us thought he was towards the end.
He erred when he fired Sobran and Francis, in my opinion.
Buckley and the National Review have always been libertarian. Therefore, it’s no surprise that they have devolved in the manner that they have.
Some have suggested that WFB was controlled opposition. His assignment was to purge conservatism of nativists, protectionists, and isolationists. This he did.
Two words. Bill Kristol. As long as that rag gives this embedded RINO freedom-hater a voice I won’t even consider valuing it as a conservative outlet.
I was reading NR when it was a a weekly alternating with a newsletter and had my own subscription in 1964 which I kept until a year after WFB died. I could see even then that the fire was going out. WFB had his own weak spot, he reached the conclusion that the nation would be better served if private ownership were ended. That was jarring but every other part of the mag was very enlightening. I have had an ongoing sense of loss missing the humorous wordplay of his own writing.
One of my fondest memories was receiving in the mail, NR, American Spectator, and The Limbaugh Letter. I’d read a few hours every night before bed. NR isn’t even worth reading any longer. The Spectator turned tech then tried to come back to its roots, but I wasn’t interested. And, I miss Rush so bad it hurts.
damn straight, kudos Kurt!
(Kinder, gentler, a thousand points of light.)
Well we learned that GHWB was a Globalist at heart.
If NR hadnt already been dead to me, the immediate and unwarranted attacks on the Covington kids would’ve done it.
“... Kathryn Jean Lopez tut-tutting...”
That’s what she does. Well said.
Lol! Over a decade of “what happened to National Review”?
Bailed on FR when they failed to stand with Mark Steyn on Michael Mann’s law fare harassment of them over Mann’s bs book on global warming.
In 1977, I took Greyhound from Hartford to Old Orchard Beach, Maine. (Think I would let any of my kids do that today?) I took my dad’s NR magazine (along with a boating, a railroad and a model railroading magazine and a book.) At Boston, I had to wait an hour and 15 minutes to catch the OOB bus. I sat down and 20 minutes later a creep sat next to me and asked me why I was reading a hateful magazine. I looked at him and he was reading the Advocate, so I decided to move to another location. I guess he was looking for runaways (I just spend a month in NY City for my sociology class, and we were there helping runaways before pedos go to them) to traffic.
“The problem is not that Ms. Lopez does not appreciate Mr. Aldean’s tune but that she does not appreciate Mr. Aldean’s people”
Bingo. Th wine and cheese eaters at NR are effete snobs.
ps
I am proud to report that I once shook the hand of Bill Buckley. It was a great day indeed.
Thanks for posting great piece from Schlichter. I used to subscribe to NR. When they let Mark Steyn go, I stopped.
Rich Lowrey raped and killed NR.