[only1percent]

I don't think that The New Yorker has moved to the right. It has the same center-left stance journalistically that it has always had, and a contempt-for-Bush editorial stance that is only less conspicuous than that of the New York Times because the house style doesn't allow for as much out-and-out editorializing.

[driftless]

Their contempt for Bush was epitomized in a cover I saw of The New Yorker last year. I can't remember it exactly, but it's theme was something to do with how-stupid-is-Bush. I'm sure most of the NYer readers are of the upper west-side, elite, liberal stripe who sneer at conservatives and think the world ends at the other side of the Hudson River. The smug, pompous, condescending view that NYer readers have of everyone else is typical of most liberals. Their view was and is : we have all the answers, you pathetic, ignorant, middle-class worms, do what we tell you, and don't ask questions.