The Quiet Death of National Review

With the rise of MAGA in the ranks of the GOP, the Right no longer needs a veneer of intellectualism.

Illustration by Johanna Walderdorff

In January 2016, just ahead of the Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, the longtime house journal of American conservatism published a special issue devoted in large part to denunciations of Donald Trump. Featuring contributions from conservative luminaries like Bill Kristol, John Podhoretz, and L. Brent Bozell III (nephew of its founder, William F. Buckley Jr), the […]

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