Since Lowry took over, it's all children of the Partisan Review, all the time. Kristol, etc etc.
When the TP got moving, you heard all kinds of squeaking from the cocktail party circuit at NR. Oh, mercy me, don't carry offensive signs!
There I was, risking making an idiot of myself in the heat of the summer and fall of 2009 trying to make points to my elected officials, and the effete little Ivy crowd at NR were sweating being embarrassed. They can't lead or follow, but love to be in the way. (As long as they get to use a lot of big words and emphasize how smart they are.)
They need to find real work.
NR jumped the shark before Lowry, unfortunately. I've found that I have to go to religious journals to find a publication that doesn't flounder all over the place.