Quin: TNR‘s history of excellence is exactly why I’m so fascinated by the Beauchamp scandal. The late Bill Bradford used to say that he’d be thrilled if Liberty was as well-written as TNR. It breaks my heart to see a great magazine self-immolating.
As for Jon Chait’s TRB, Ramesh Ponnuru and Rich Lowry make quick work of it. Ramesh cuts to a key point: “Perhaps Jonathan Chait has made overheated and unfair statements from time to time? I don’t think it would be reasonable to take one of those statements and use it to create a theory of his essential thuggishness.”
