Burnham died, he wasn’t fired from National Review. Joe Sobran was fired, so was John Derbyshire.
I don’t think Sam Francis was ever writing for NR. He got fired by several other conservative outlets, thanks to a campaign labeling him a racist run by an opportunistic phony named Dinesh D’Souza.
Sam Francis, as some here know, was a prophet of MAGA decades before it had a name or a candidate that would represent it. Here’s an article mentioning Francis you ought to enjoy:
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/view/sam-francis-was-right/
I stand corrected on both points—good post.
National Review became irrelevant once the left seized power of all major institutions (”the long march through the institutions”).
At that point we had no choice—become anti-establishment radicals or be crushed.