A sweet kid of a reader asks:

Jonah,
That Salon-related article you linked to says that Salon has 60 staffers (that seemed like a lot, especially considering their cheap-looking page design). I wondered: how many does NRO have? I wondered because Tech is my living, and I didn’t think more than 20-25 people would be needed to do what you guys do.

It’s a very flattering question. But for the record, all of NR doesn’t have that big a staff. NRO’s full-time staff is, um, Kathryn Lopez, Aaron Bailey and, well, that’s about it. And even they do major work on the print side of the operation. If you count people who do the equivalent of full-time work (and then some) for NRO, I’d add the indispensible Chris McEvoy (NR’s Production Editor). Some other writers and editors split their work between NR and NRO. And the suits are obviously interested in making a buck where they can. I can’t even begin to think what we could do with five full-time additional staffers. Liberals would quake in fear. My gosh, I’d have a researcher! Kathryn would get some sleep. But if we had 20-25 people working on NRO we’d be unstoppable.