To me, NR sounds like a desperate kid who got caught cheating on his exam and is now hiding in the cloak closet saying he didn’t do it.
It breaks my heart that National Review has come down to that. I used to wait for each copy with such anticipation back in the ‘80s. Was a tragic end for such an iconic heirloom.
I used to love it as well, learned a lot from it. But it can’t just be a drawing room intellectual exercise. It’s about saving a country at this point.