John Podhoretz, one of the magazine's founders, reports that they actively prevented potential buyers from coming in to take it over and keep it alive.
Anschutz, being a professing Christian, decided to close the magazine at the height of the Christmas season, and so cause maximum pain to his former employees and their families.
The closing of The Weekly Standard is being told as a Trump story, as all stories must be these days.
The magazine's tone was part high intellectualism, part street-level political reporting and part Hunter Thompson-style gonzo journalism.
Over the past year, under the editorship of Steve Hayes, the magazine was as good as it ever was.
Over the past few years, if all the stories are correct, McKibbin tried to change the tone of the magazine.
The Standard is now gone, but the people and ideas The Standard nurtured will continue to flourish.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/opinion/weekly-standard-closing-conservatism.html
Anschutz, being a professing Christian, decided to close the magazine at the height of the Christmas season, and so cause maximum pain to his former employees and their families.
The closing of The Weekly Standard is being told as a Trump story, as all stories must be these days.
The magazine's tone was part high intellectualism, part street-level political reporting and part Hunter Thompson-style gonzo journalism.
Over the past year, under the editorship of Steve Hayes, the magazine was as good as it ever was.
Over the past few years, if all the stories are correct, McKibbin tried to change the tone of the magazine.
The Standard is now gone, but the people and ideas The Standard nurtured will continue to flourish.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/opinion/weekly-standard-closing-conservatism.html
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