The big announcement just dropped.
Where is Gregg Easterbrook’s “Tuesday Morning Quarterback” this year?
Would you believe…the Weekly Standard?
Yeah, that seems a little odd to me, too. Wikipedia characterizes it (fairly, I think) as “an American conservative opinion magazine”, and “conservative” is not a word I would use to describe Easterbrook. But, you know, whatever gets you through the night.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Will TMQ go back to the pre-NYT days, with 2,000 word digressions on how unrealistic a television show is? Or will this be the leaner, tighter, more disciplined TMQ we saw on the website for the paper of record?
And will there be cheerleader photos?
The Weekly Standard isn’t on our list of publications and websites we don’t read. (Heck, Lawrence even subscribes to it. Or did at one time: I’m not sure if he still does.) So yes, there will be a TMQ Watch when Easterbrook’s column resumes next week. Watch this space.
I’ve not subscribed to the Weekly Standard in about a decade. I have a hard enough time keeping up with my National Review subscription, sine the Internet Eats All Spare Time.
Weekly Standard has frequently printed non-political pieces from non-conservatives. Tom Disch used to do book and arts reviews for them.