From the Editor: I Am Not a Camera

Readers sometimes ask that I write longer pieces for NR. Their wish is granted in this issue-with eight pages on the new shape of American politics and how conservatives are failing to recognize the Left’s challenge, let alone meet it. Of course, they may now feel like the man on the Titanic: “I know I ordered ice, but this is ridiculous.”

In our last issue, we criticized Stephen Glass, the author of a New Republic piece on the brutish behavior of some young conservatives at the CPAC conference, for participating in the humiliation of a young woman by some of the Calibans present. Friends of Mr. Glass protest that while he did not obstruct the young woman’s humiliation, he did not “participate” in it either. He merely recorded what happened.

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John O’Sullivan

John O’Sullivan is a senior fellow at National Review Institute and a contributing editor of National Review.

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Readers sometimes ask that I write longer pieces for NR. Their wish is granted in this issue-with eight pages on the new shape of American politics and how conservatives are failing to recognize the Left’s challenge, let alone meet it. Of course, they may now feel like the man on the Titanic: “I know I ordered ice, but this is ridiculous.”

In our last issue, we criticized Stephen Glass, the author of a New Republic piece on the brutish behavior of some young conservatives at the CPAC conference, for participating in the humiliation of a young woman by some of the Calibans present. Friends of Mr. Glass protest that while he did not obstruct the young woman’s humiliation, he did not “participate” in it either. He merely recorded what happened.