National Review Asking For Donations (1 Viewer)

[rockaction]

So I got a letter in my inbox -- my main one -- as a former subscriber to National Review. It seems they need money from donors. Not that they haven't before, but I haven't heard quite so urgent a plea from an otherwise buttoned-down magazine.

Anyway, it's not so much the donations as the thinking that if they close their doors, we'll have lost the two conservative voices that mattered most before Donald Trump, The Weekly Standard and National Review. If this were to happen, we truly will be entering a dark ages of conservative thought, or at least, conservative amalgamated thought disseminated to the mainstream of America. Brick and mortar has died; there are no more subscriptions other than that which can barely keep investigative journals and opinion ones afloat for anything but the briefest and most fleeting of time periods. 

It's time to stop and think about where we would be if not for access to these men and women and their thoughts. If they are not the beacons of light henceforth, who will step up and grab the mantle.

"You, Lt. Weinberg (spits)?"

I kid. A little Sorkin in there.

But The Federalist is the last paper standing, and that's in the tank for President Trump. It vacillates like he does, verily and merrily from one day to the next, causes be damned. What will we read? What shall we do?

 

[djmich]

Their app is atrocious 

 

[[scooter]]

Why would they ask a former subscriber to make a donation.......rather than just asking him to re-subscribe?

 

[rockaction]

Why would they ask a former subscriber to make a donation.......rather than just asking him to re-subscribe?

Really good point. Perhaps I'm on a different sort of mailing list that I signed up for. I used to use my main email as default. 

 

[Alex P Keaton]

Since real conservatives are in short supply, I’m not surprised that they are struggling.

 

[Black Box]

The Dispatch. Thank me later.

 

[tommyGunZ]

Had I received that solicitation, I'd have written back, explaining in very elementary terms the concept of supply and demand, and the efficiency of market clearing.  Then I would have offered them a link to a bootstraping exercise video on youtube.

 

[tommyGunZ]

FWIW, I subscribe and listen to the The Bullwark daily.  While I don't give the host and his regular conservative guests a free pass for their work over the years creating the environment for Trump to flourish, I'm grateful that there is at least a fraction of the conservative movement that isn't bat#### crazy.  

 

[The Z Machine]

What will we read? What shall we do?

You should move on to more rigorous ideological publications that can still stay afloat.  Try Mother Jones.

 

[rockaction]

Had I received that solicitation, I'd have written back, explaining in very elementary terms the concept of supply and demand, and the efficiency of market clearing.  Then I would have offered them a link to a bootstraping exercise video on youtube.

Oh, pshaw. National Review would be the first to quote this:

“Cecil Graham: What is a cynic?
Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing.”

National Review would simply argue that there's nothing absurd in their value, rather, the market has missed it.

FWIW, I subscribe and listen to the The Bullwark daily.  While I don't give the host and his regular conservative guests a free pass for their work over the years creating the environment for Trump to flourish, I'm grateful that there is at least a fraction of the conservative movement that isn't bat#### crazy.  

In all seriousness, bulwark is a word. I'm sure your keyboard just stuck on the "l," but it's generally a term to refer to something or someone that or who stands strong in the face of adversity. A wall or metaphorical wall, if you will. "We overran the enemy in the field, but could not trespass their last bulwark of defense."

It's Bill Kristol's publishing endeavor after his Weekly Standard failed the supply-and-demand bootstrapping exercises you speak so highly of.

This was all written with a lightness of feather, by the way. My quills drip with the ink of no ills.  

 

[tommyGunZ]

Oh, pshaw. National Review would be the first to quote this:

“Cecil Graham: What is a cynic?
Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing.”

National Review would simply argue that there's nothing absurd in their value, rather, the market has missed it.

In all seriousness, bulwark is a word. I'm sure your keyboard just stuck on the "l," but it's generally a term to refer to something or someone that or who stands strong in the face of adversity. A wall or metaphorical wall, if you will. "We overran the enemy in the field, but could not trespass their last bulwark of defense."

It's Bill Kristol's publishing endeavor after his Weekly Standard failed the supply-and-demand bootstrapping exercises you speak so highly of.

This was all written with a lightness of feather, by the way. My quills drip with the ink of no ills.  

I've listened enough to know the origin of the podcast, but obviously not enough to correctly spell the title. And while I do enjoy the discussions, I look forward to a time in the future where Kristol/Hayes/Sykes/French etc. have had a bit more time to reflect on how their actions over the past couple decades contributed to the dumpster fire that is the current conservative movement.  

 

[Ilov80s]

Oh, pshaw. National Review would be the first to quote this:

“Cecil Graham: What is a cynic?
Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing.” 

Quoting a flamboyantly gay artist who wrote  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"  is an interesting way to defend The National Review  

 

[Lutherman2112]

I offered to donate an anvil.

Haven't heard back.

 

[rockaction]

Quoting a flamboyantly gay artist who wrote  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"  is an interesting way to defend The National Review  

Bill Buckley once quipped, because of his fashionista wife Pat, that he'd had more queens in his apartment than decks of playing cards in Vegas.

Or something like that. Maybe I just made that up.