[lentulusgracchus]

[You, quoting Rich Lowry]
His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible. We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways.

Ping to my last.

But what did Derbyshire say that was "nasty and indefensible"? Lowry broadly characterizes what Derbyshire wrote but doesn't specify.

[.30Carbine]

It’s his call. I don’t think he has to be any more specific than his statement already is. Jim Robinson zots folks all the time - it’s his prerogative as the owner of the site. He owes no one an explanation. Lowry has the same power, as obviously demonstrated in this case.

[Excellence]

The whole piece is at post 80.
It is hard to choose just one sentence or paragraph that would have cause NR to pull the plug.
I would like to see Charles Murray’s take on the piece.