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There are reporters at outlets like the Washington Post who raised real questions about Rolling Stone’s story about rape at the University of Virginia. And then are also those like National Review editor Rich Lowry,
An NBC roundtable on affirmative action–dominated by conservative white men.
On the show: The New York Times runs an op-ed from a leader of the Venezuelan opposition–but it’s the correction that is most revealing. And right-wing pundit Rich Lowry can’t stand Vladmir Putin’s invasion based on “lies.” But he had a different view of that when he was the one lying about Iraq. Plus the […]
From its 1950s founding, when it campaigned for the racist order in the American South and South Africa, to recent years with “scientific racists” who say black people are less intelligent than other groups, the National Review has always been significantly defined by racism.
Conservative Forbes columnist Josh Barro is happy that John Derbyshire was fired for writing a racist column: I’m pleased to see that National Review has fired John Derbyshire as a result of his racist screed in Taki’s Magazine last week. Derbyshire’s remarks were beyond the pale, and this severing of ties is important for the […]
Victor Davis Hanson notes that one reason for American exceptionalism may be that we did not inherit from England “a large underclass of only quasi-free people attached to barons as serfs.” Sadly, a worse institution took root here, but never became part of the national psyche. —Rich Lowry & Ramesh Ponnuru (National Review Online, 3/8/10, […]
