Yeah, I should have said after he retired, not after he died.
Neither would be correct.
NR was still a great publication under John O'Sullivan. Rich Lowry is the problem, plain and simple. There is no better example than the contretemps between Mark Steyn and that pathetic little twerp Jason Steorts over a year ago. Despite the spectacle of his most popular writer and managing editor going at it hammer and tongs in a very public way, it was the NR publisher who finally jumped in and said, "I think Steyn is a great writer, and his column [about homosexual intolerance] was wonderful."
Where was Rich Lowry during all that? Nowhere to be seen. Which makes one suspect that he was behind the attempt to force Steyn into a humiliating Auto de fe all along.