Mark Steyn’s response to Jason Lee Steorts may be the end of his relationship with that publication. Rich Lowry will most likley side with his editor and Steyn will be sent packing. At this point, there are only two reasons to read National Review. One is Mark Steyn and the other is Kevin Williamson. Williamson is an empirically minded guy who does not have a lot patience for the trendy oogily-boogily that makes up most of modern discourse. He’ll piss off the queers eventually or maybe the race hustlers. It is just a matter of time before National Review looks more like the Nation than anything Buckley imagined. Time magazine, after all, was a right-wing publication into the 60’s. Then Henry Luce passed from the scene and before long Time was a lunatic outpost. So it goes.

The decline of National Review is a bit shocking in its speed. Rich Lowry has proven to be a ridiculous fop and coward. It was pretty clear that he was a rump-swab from the beginning. The guy is a talentless boob, but managed to ingratiate himself to Buckley and O’Sullivan. That type is familiar to anyone who has worked in a organization of more than three people. usually this type is quite ruthless once they get power. Lowry is turning out to be quite incompetent. Then again, National Review is not his primary interest. He is trying to make himself a TV star and NR is just a rung on the ladder. It is a shame, but there it is. Once guys like Steyn and Williamson are gone, NR will morph into a David Brooks role. That is, celebrating the left but occasionally offering up and few doubts.

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