At National Review, a Threat to Its Reputation for Erudition

New York Times ^ | November 16, 2008 | Tim Arango

[reaganaut1]

The Left is full of "erudite and well-mannered debate". /s

[SeafoodGumbo]

Don't let the door hit you in the ass, idiots.

National Review will still have the titans of Jonah Goldberg, Mark Steyn, and Victor Davis Hanson.

Christopher who? Somebody Frum? You won't be missed.

[Pelham]

“Now, thanks to the coarsening effect of the Internet on political discourse, the magazine may have lost something else: its reputation as the cradle for conservative intellectuals and home for erudite and well-mannered debate prized by its founder, the late William F. Buckley Jr.”

Considering that NR ceased being worth reading about 18 years ago this is hardly a newsflash.

[billorites]

Damn, erudition is one of those words I should know the meaning of.

If Bill Buckley was alive he could explain it to me.

So could his son Christopher.

But he's a dick.

[citizencon]

Fair-weather Republicans moving on to “greener pastures”...

[Luke21]

David Frum can leave and not pass go....

[Clemenza]

The end of the Cold War killed the Buckleyite fusionist coalition. John O'Sullivan (English Fop) and Rich Lowry (yuppie douchebag) both ran the magazine into the ground.

Sad, as it appears as though the Right has lost its intellectual bearings, now represented by the tabloid idiocy of Fox News and the low-IQ pablum of Sean "Joe Lieberman is my friend" Hannity.

[Reagan Man]

Smug and condescending jackasses can be found on the left and the right.

[GOP Poet]

With any living thing dead cells slough off and begin anew elsewhere. Enough said. I look forward to new skin :-)

[billorites]

"coarsening effect" my puffy white ass...

[Pelham]

“National Review will still have the titans of Jonah Goldberg, Mark Steyn, and Victor Davis Hanson.”

Pygmies, maybe, titans, not a chance. The titans were James Burnham, Jeffrey Hart, Russell Kirk, Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, among others.

Once Rich Lowry and the pygmies took over NR should have been printed on a roll.

[hometoroost]

The Times on the other hand doesn’t have to worry about a reputation for erudition. If it ever had one it left a long, long time ago.

[sbark]

They mistakenly looked at the Democrats “as the friends across the Isle”.....without realizing it convert or be destroyed.....just as with radical Islam in alot more ways than one thinks...

Maybe its time to support M.Steyn, Goldberg et all at Natl Review more than ever....

They are in restucture at the same time as GOP...lets see if they end up parrallel to each other.....

[Mojave]

In an interview, he said he planned to leave the magazine, where he writes a popular blog, to strike out on his own on the Web.

Next stop, the Huffington Post.

[Pelham]

I’m buying you a beer. Make that two beers.

[Mojave]

You're a great American.

[RavenATB]

“Once Rich Lowry and the pygmies took over NR should have been printed on a roll.”

Oh, my...what a wonderful jab. Hope you don't mind if I appropriate that for my own use.

[WillT]

Hopefully, Ponnuru is next - another elitist RINO.

[Mamzelle]

re: National Review will still have the titans of Jonah Goldberg, Mark Steyn, and Victor Davis Hanson.)))

Yes, and Katty Kathleen Parker wrote for them this week.

[Clemenza]

No. George Washington, Black Jack Pershing, and Ronald Reagan were great Americans. I am but a humble citizen upset at the flatulence currently being peddled as “right wing” opinion by an Australian.