National Review
In recent years, some conservatives have criticized NR's policy stances as supporting particular liberal programs and also blindly supporting the free market at the expense of all other principles. They claim it has ceased to be conservative and now simply toes a neoconservative party-line.[5] Also, conservative columnist L. Brent Bozell III criticized the National Review article "Flipping Off the FCC" written by its managing editor Peter Suderman for using faulty evidence against indecency regulation by the Federal Communications Commission.[6]
Jeffery Hart, a longtime NR editor, criticizes the magazine's current crop of writers as being too topical, too ideological, and no longer grounded in serious political philosophy. In his 2005 book, The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times, he laments the loss of the Eastern Conservatives as a dominant force in the Republican Party (GOP). Hart relays how co-founder James Burnham (a leading theorist), supported Nelson Rockefeller's 1964 presidential campaign. This critical view concludes that National Review turned its back on the Taft and Rockefeller wings of the GOP, abandoning its principles to become a coalition of Southern evangelicals and populists, best exemplified by George W. Bush.
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National Review Online
A popular feature of National Review is the web version of the magazine, National Review Online ("NRO"), which includes a digital version of the magazine, with articles updated daily by National Review writers, and conservative blogs. The Online version is called NRO to distinguish it from the paper magazine (referred to as "NRODT" or National Review On Dead Tree.) The site's editor is Kathryn Jean Lopez, known to the NRO community as "K-Lo". The website receives about one million hits per day -- more than all other conservative-magazine websites combined. Each day, the site posts new content comprised of neo-conservative, conservative and neo-liberal opinion articles. It also features ten blogs:
- The Corner (postings from many of the site's editors and affiliated writers discussing the issues of the day).
- David Frum’s Diary (updated by writer David Frum).
- The Campaign Spot (formerly The Kerry Spot/TKS written by Jim Geraghty).
- And another thing... (talk show host Mark Levin’s blog).
- David Calling (updated by writer David Pryce-Jones).
- Bench Memos (legal and judicial news).
- Media Blog (media news).
- Planet Gore (global warming news).
- Phi Beta Cons (University news).
- The Tank (Military news).
Markos Moulitsas, who runs the left-wing Daily Kos Web site, told reporters in August 2007 that he doesn't read conservative blogs, with the exception of those on NRO: "I do like the blogs at the National Review — I do think their writers are the best in the [conservative] blogosphere," he said.[7]
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Finances
As with most partisan opinion magazines in the United States, National Review carries little corporate advertising and has never turned a profit. The magazine stays afloat by donations from subscribers and black-tie fundraisers around the country. The magazine also sponsors cruises featuring National Review editors and contributors as lecturers.
Buckley said in 2005 that the magazine had lost about $25 million over 50 years.[8]
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Notable current contributors
Current contributors to National Review magazine, National Review Online, or both:
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Notable past contributors
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National Review in popular culture
National Review is featured in a dry comedic scene in the 1977 movie Annie Hall, starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton. When Allen visits Keaton's New York City apartment, he sees that Keaton has copies of both National Review and Rolling Stone magazines in her apartment. The following scene transpires:
- (Allen staring at National Review and Rolling Stone magazines in Keaton's apartment).
- Allen: "Are you going with a right-wing rock n' roll star?"
- Allen: "Honey, there's a spider in your bathroom the size of a Buick."
- (Allen grabs Keaton's copy of National Review, rolls it up, and slams the magazine down on the spiders).
- Allen: "I did it. I killed 'em both."
- (Keaton starts crying).
- Allen: "What's the matter? What are you sad about? What did you want me to do? Capture 'em and rehabilitate 'em?" [4]
Allen also featured National Review in the 1971 film Bananas, situating a single issue against rows and rows of pornography on a store's magazine rack.
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Notes
- ^ Advertise on National Review Online
- ^ Our Mission Statement November 19, 1955
- ^ Golden Days October 27, 2005
- ^ A Personal Retrospective August 9, 2004
- ^ Branwell, Austin W. Good-bye to all that. The American Conservative: November 20, 2006.
- ^ Bozell, L. Brent III (2007-06-22). "Conservatives" for Sleaze TV. Parents Television Council. Retrieved on 2008-01-05.
- ^ [1]Ben Smith blog at the Web site of The Politico, "Markos speaks" post, August 2, 2007, accessed same day
- ^ [2]Shapiro, Gary, "An 'Encounter' With Conservative Publishing", "Knickerbocker" column, The New York Sun, December 9, 2005
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External links
- NRO, National Review Online
- National Review at Discourse DB
- A Personal Retrospective: NR and its founder by Rich Lowry, August 9, 2004, on the occasion of National Review's 50th anniversary
- "President Honors Buckley at 50th Anniversary of National Review", October 6, 2005
- Man of Letters by Andrew Ferguson (Wall Street Journal)
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