I know that David Frum doesn't have many friends around here for his numerous and well-reported apostasies, but I did find this summary run-down of his current position on conservatism convincing. I'm not sure about his big claims surrounding gritty day-to-day politics, but his critiques of the profits-over-results conservative media entertainment industry are persuasive, in my view (and, to be fair and state the obvious, the political entertainment industry is not just a creature of the right, or something that was invented with Fox News--MSNBC is just as bad and frequently far worse).
Just to lay all my cards on the table, one of the reason's that I find National Review so difficult to stomach these days (other than what Jarrod might label a slouchy leftward drift on my part) is the fact that so many of NR's contributor's have bought into the model of conservative-thought-entrepreneurs. No doubt these will be lucrative years for many of them.
