{"id":52069,"date":"2014-01-23T19:54:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T03:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=52069"},"modified":"2014-01-23T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T04:00:00","slug":"national-review-parts-way-with-mark-steyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=52069","title":{"rendered":"National Review Parts Way With Mark Steyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final fatal <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/mark-steyn-out-at-national-review\">difference<\/a> was in the conduct of their legal defense against climate scientist Michael Mann. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve rarely read National Review over the past six months (the Weekly Standard even less). I prefer Steve Sailer and VDare.com. <\/p>\n<p>The National Review was at its best under editor <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_O'Sullivan_(columnist)\">John O&#8217;Sullivan<\/a> and has steadily declined under lightweight Rich Lowry. <\/p>\n<p>My favorite newspaper is the New York Times. The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times also do good work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final fatal difference was in the conduct of their legal defense against climate scientist Michael Mann. I&#8217;ve rarely read National Review over the past six months (the Weekly Standard even less). I prefer Steve Sailer and VDare.com. 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