[Numbers Guy]

Excellent article, especially given who wrote it and where it appeared (about the only more surprising place for an article like that to appear would be Harper's).

Didion, like Garry Wills, actually got her start at National Review.

[T'wit]

Yes, she did write for NR (and Vogue, I think), before she married John Gregory Dunne. I don't think she was quite at home at National Review, but Bill Buckley had a penchant for hiring brilliant young people regardless of their politics.