I stopped reading it after they smeared conservatives such as Buchanan and Sobran by lumping them up with the likes of Raymondo. But the deathist views of Ponnuru and Derbyshire are news to me, so I think I will ask them for a check for the balance of my loooong subscription, payable to Catholic Answers.
Whoa! Ramesh is not pro-death in any way. He is one of the most articulate pro-life writers I've ever read. And Derbyshire aside, I really do appreciate the fact that Professor Robert George is a frequent contributor to the magazine. It's not all bad. It just has some weaknesses.
Is Ponnuru compromised as well? I haven't noticed, and Keating doesn't mention his views.
I subscribed to NR for a year or two in college in the late '90s, I believe after reading Buckley's first book God and Man at Yale.
Aside from an occasional piece by somebody like Robert P. George, they have no more Russell Kirks or von Kuehnelt-Leddihns. Thinkers of their caliber have been pushed into more academic journals, like those published by ISI.
Yes there is that strange intellectual tic of the neo-conmen, it's as though they believe they can ingratiate themselves with the liberals if they attack someone-anyone- to the right of them, principles be damned!
As for Ponnuru, I believe that NRO showed a skirmish between him and Derbyshire over the Schiavo case.