To his credit, National Review editor Rich Lowry has apologized more than once for his and the publication’s initial response to the flap at the Lincoln Memorial involving the kids from Covington Catholic. He has much to apologize for. In his initial response, without any apparent fact checking, Lowry commended the knee-jerk mea culpa of the Covington diocese, tweeting, “A necessary and appropriate apology.” In a later tweet, having seen just a little bit of the video, Lowry still felt obliged to condemn the “obnoxious, dumb, and disrespectful behavior of the teens.” National Review’s deputy managing editor, Nicholas Frankovich, meanwhile...