Via Glenn Greenwald, on National Review Online, Mark Krikorian posts a press release from the recently collapsed Washington Mutual touting the diversity of their staff and asks "Cause and Effect?" as if to say that the bank's demise was caused by having an excessively diverse work force.
Which raises a couple of questions. Is it Krikorian's belief that National Review remains an influential conservative publication because of or in spite of the presence of Ramesh Ponnuru and Kathryn Jean Lopez? Or are they two of "the good ones?" Will they continue to publish the writings of Thomas Sowell, or will this lead to the demise of the magazine as surely as WaMu was brought down by its nonwhite staff? Is it his belief that the Iraq War was not mishandled by President Bush or Donald Rumsfeld, but rather was doomed from the beginning because of Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice? Is the reason conservatives are desperate for more conservative justices on the Supreme Court because Clarence Thomas has hopelessly dragged down the SCOTUS with his mere presence?
Moreover, how exactly, given this theory, does Krikorian explain the relative success of other companies on the list, such as Comcast or Kraft? Or are these companies merely bolstered by secretly staffing themselves with genetically engineered caucasian supergeniuses?
--A. Serwer
