Richard

To the Editor

It is natural enough, I suppose, that everyone interested in national review thinks he has a better idea of what it ought to be than the editors. (Much as I like the way it is shaping up, I am sure I have subterranean notions of the same kind myself.) And, of course, a good many of the suggestions made are good ones; but there is one set of attitudes, which I have met too frequently for comfort, that very much disturbs me. It is the insistence, to put it bluntly, that the magazine publish nothing that makes serious intellectual demands upon the reader; that it conform to the slick and easy standards of predigested journalism.

RW

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Richard M. Weaver

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To the Editor

It is natural enough, I suppose, that everyone interested in national review thinks he has a better idea of what it ought to be than the editors. (Much as I like the way it is shaping up, I am sure I have subterranean notions of the same kind myself.) And, of course, a good many of the suggestions made are good ones; but there is one set of attitudes, which I have met too frequently for comfort, that very much disturbs me. It is the insistence, to put it bluntly, that the magazine publish nothing that makes serious intellectual demands upon the reader; that it conform to the slick and easy standards of predigested journalism.