A p.s. to a side remark/link from a few days ago: The Columbia Journalism Review complains that opinion mags have a “heavily male” lineup writing for them. The assertion is made that ” At several magazines, women writers were occasionally shut out of entire issues.” Bylined pieces, I’ll trust their numbers (life’s too short to check)—and I have to say I don’t really care too much. But it is worth saying, so The Estrich Fan Club can sleep nights, that there are women editors here, writing parts of the most-popular editorial section of the print mag–”The Week”–every issue. So the shut-out thing is a little misleading.

And, needless to say, the fairer sex (are we really fairer?) plays an integral role in the whole NRO project (ahem). But I generally assume most women who contribute or write or edit, etc. for NR/NRO don’t really count when sophisticates are doing the counting. If you don’t fit the expected female ideological profile, I’m not sure you (I) actually count.