If William F. Buckley was still alive, he’d urge National Review to either fold its tent, or merge with another leftist rag.
Unfortunately William F Buckley is the one who chose to turn over his magazine to the poseurs who wrecked it.
The actual brains behind NR in its prime was probably his sister Priscilla. She became its managing editor in 1959 did that until some time in the 1980s. I dropped my subscription around 1990 when I thought it had become less of a conservative journal and more of a GOP establishment mouthpiece.