Geoffrey Nunberg, writing in The New York Times’ Week in Review section, takes a mild shot at NR’s own Dear Leader today, and other educated conservative writers, saying that “their politics turns them into traitors to their demographic.” The idea is that proper conservatives should stay away from Sam Adams, Starbucks and gruyere, and only partake of Stroh’s, Maxwell House and Velveeta. Now, I’m not going to accuse Meister Lowry of being a crunchy conservative, but I do think Nunberg is behind the curve. Crunchy-cons shop like broke Episcopalians, but vote like Pentecostals. We look like Blue America on the outside, but are Red America through and through. Come on, Nunberg, pay attention!

Maybe the Nunbergs of the world will be learning about crunchy conservatism when they open their Utne Reader this month. The magazine reprints NR’s crunchy-con cover story from last year. Thanks, Utne Reader!