Would William Buckley even recognize the National Review any more?
I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on the history of the National Review, but I’ve seen claims that at some point it was some kind of haven for conservative intellectual thought (though the biased part of me remains skeptical of whether this was ever true). That being said, I’d like to think I’m being unbiased when I echo the thoughts of many that in recent years the publication has been an anti-intellectual sewer only a step above sites like Perez Hilton or The Free Republic. Glenn Greenwald details a recent episode — not solitary by any means — in which the publication just outright refused to print a correction in a timely manner.
