Magnet’s Milestone

The NY Sun pays tribute to Myron Magnet, one of the least recognized and most influential American public intellectuals of the last decade:

But it turns out that some years ago the editor forged a relationship with the governor of Texas, George W. Bush, and his aide Karl Rove, and thus the ideas of City Journal came to infuse not only the policies of America’s largest and greatest city but also the domestic policy of the Bush administration and its “compassionate conservatism.” No doubt the attacks of September 11, 2001, made the administration’s priorities more focused on foreign than domestic policy. But if one had to pick two politicians to influence during the term of an editorship in the past half-generation, one would be challenged to match the ones Mr. Magnet so famously influenced in Messrs. Giuliani and Bush.