"For such a loved magazine, no one except a few like minded authors are mourning The Weekly Standard's passing.
"That says how much influence Kristol's really had - none."
To answer the question What made The Weekly Standard great?
#5 Nothing
#6 Nothing
Its demise
It’s amazing that the two so called Conservative Magazines (Very Weakly Substandard and Globalist Review) are anti President Trump. Oh well, I know now that they were never for Americans...(WF Buckley would be upset at his magazine.)