In a breathtaking piece for American Greatness titled “Why I Left National Review”, an excerpt from his most recent Tucker Carlson Today interview, Victor Davis Hanson, author of the brand new must-read book The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America (and one of the smartest commentators around), explains why he no longer writes for the hot garbage magazine known as National Review:

I lost all those friends. I left the National Review this year after 20 years and I think they were happy to see me leave, too … There were certain issues that would pop up occasionally, and I could predict what the answer was going to be. The Covington kids. I just sensed that before we knew anything, people would come and condemn them. Or the Access Hollywood tape … I think there [are] certain people in the Republican movement, or establishment, who feel [like] it is their duty to internally police their own, and that’s kind of a virtue signal to the Left. ‘We are just part of your class, we share the same values as you do.’

Read the rest of the piece here.