Posted on 11/15/2020 9:57:00 AM PST by big bad easter bunny
National Review - established by the now dead Conservative legend William F. Buckley - tried to do exactly that.
What a catastrophe!
Eight years after Buckley's death, the new NR editors were condemning Donald Trump on the cover story of the magazine.
It was because they were planning to move to another hosts
after the first of the year. But the current server hosts
plan changed and forced this earlier move. Look for the 1st
post since we came back by JR and he explains a bit. It will
take some time to get it all back together.
Embrace change, old man.
Many here appreciate sticking with what serves its purpose well. Much new stuff and revised stuff does not do that, with the focus becoming fancy new eye candy instead of the core functionality that made the thing successful in the first place.
One might call that being conservative. Like sticking with the Bible, your friends and your spouse, as they are.
Change for change’s sake is frequently not a virtue, but sure keeps coders and lawyers employed.
Every trail comes to its natural end. Same with persona-led entities like National Review, Limbaugh’s show and FR. Enjoy them while they’re here.
John O'Sullivan was National Review's greatest editor.
Have you heard of O'Sullivan's Law?
"Every organization that is not consciously Conservative becomes Liberal over time."
“Every organization that is not consciously Conservative becomes Liberal over time.”
Our Founders knew that, as do the cultural Marxist agents among us.
(He used “liberal” in its Newspeak form.)
An analogy: Every person that is not health-conscious becomes unhealthy over time.
Also, my primary point was about “persona-led entities” changing after that person, the founder, is gone.
I’ve seen many once-successful entities wither and die after the founder is gone, be it a private company, a charitable service group, a club, a ministry, a radio or TV show.
That person had the “fire in the belly” that made it succeed and continue, but their co-workers, partners, offspring or buyers, most often, just do not.
The only thing I’d like is an ‘edit’ function.
It would save bothering the mods to fix my stupid double posts.
Re: He used “liberal” in its Newspeak form.
Curiously, O’Sullivan was an Englishman and a former speech writer for Margaret Thatcher, so he grew up and was educated to use “Liberal” in the 19th Century European sense of that word.
He consciously adjusted to American usage when he wrote O’Sullivan’s law in the late 1980s, when he became NR’s editor.
At the time, he was thinking more about giant philanthropic organizations like the Ford Foundation and universities with huge endowments and life time tenure.
“freerepublic desperately needs a dramatic upgrade to the user interface, etc.”
No. It’s perfect as is. All the fol-de-rol of the snazzy sites is annoying.
Re: It is perfect as is
I would like to see one feature restored.
We used to have a “Page View” count, which tallied the number of people who clicked on a post just to read it or just to read the Comments.
I felt like the Page View number was an important gauge of the interest in that subject that was independent of the number who decided to Comment on it.
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