He must be turning over in his grave to see the magazine he created being turned into a weak, hypocritical, dishonest rag.
The National Review strongly opposed Trump when he was the nominee. They called the Covington High School kids racist and said they “Might as Well Have Just Spit on the Cross.”
In July of 2013, the National Review published a massive 1500 word article praising Jeffrey Epstein.
They have destroyed the great intellectual magazine that Buckley created.
I subscribed to NR for a while, back when Buckley was still around. I liked it. Lots of good stuff in it.
If I were to blame one person for its demise, it would be Jonah Goldberg. How the hell he got in such a position, only God knows.
They became a mouthpiece for the Cheap Labor Express supporting the Bush Plan for North Mexico(aka USA).
President Trump threatens to undo the life’s work of a generation of Republican office holders and hangers on.
Fundamentally transforming this country has been the largest project of both parties and Fedzilla for the last 30 years.
It’s now or never to save America.
We MUST replace the Bush League Republicans BEFORE they give away our country.
Andrew McCarthy is still a NeverTrumper...and the brightest IQ bulb in the pack.
Brilliant smackdown by Nolte.
No question, it is far worse than it ever was. But Buckley was CIA from his Yale years and the NR was always something of controlled opposition. We just fell for it.
I hope you were not surprised.
I hope you were not surprised.
Where’s Joseph Sobran when you need him?
They probably didn't know he was the sex scandal guy when they published the article.
The author, "science writer" Christina Galbraith, was apparently working as Epstein's publicist.
She was also the daughter of Evan Galbraith, a good friend of Bill Buckley.
Yes, it's damning that they'd just put the thing in the magazine, but it's also the sort of thing that happens in publishing.
Sooner or later it will happen at Breitbart, if it hasn't already.
About the time I had had enough of National Review was when I discovered Free Republic.
I use to enjoy John Derbyshire on The Corner. I predicted they would fire him, and it happened. Too conservative and thoughtful for the prissy boys at National Review.
Funny, I used to look forward to getting it in the mail every couple of weeks.
They've just become insufferable.
Nordlinger, Williamson, Goldberg - they're the worst of a stable of never-Trumpers at NR. Pathetic.
1. John Nolte is a secular libertine, not a moral conservative. Any assertion by him on such matters must be viewed with that in mind. This is a man who reveres, nay worships, Woody Allen and Quentin Tarentino, and who thinks that Jim Rockford is the most American character in teevee history (not someone more noble and moral, or more Christian, or more like one of the Founding Fathers).
2. William Buckley was an elitist snob. I read National Review as a boy, and watched Firing Line. He was intelligent and articulate, although verbose, but I always found his intellectual snobbery off-putting. He effectively banned the John Birch Society from the Republican Party; that act by him was cited by NeverTrumpers as the example and validation for banning Trump voters as well.
3. The JBS and Joseph McCarthy have been far more validated by subsequent actual history than any of the Rockefeller or Buckley type of beltway snobs. I seriously doubt Buckley would have jumped on the Trump Train on Day One.
John O’Sullivan was a legendary National Review editor (1988-1997) and a former speech writer for Margaret Thatcher.
According to O’Sullivan:
“All organizations that are not consciously Conservative will become left-wing over time.”
NR is funded by the likes of Google through its “foundation.” Their paid chattering class buffoons are little more reliable than Fake News CNN at this point.
With the exception of a handful of fine people at NR, that mag is an absolute joke. Its a shame that what some people there have stooped so low.