Leans right
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Founded in 1955 by William F. Buckley Jr. and published by the non-profit National Review Institute. For half a century it was the institution that defined the boundaries of respectable American conservatism.
Its intellectual seriousness is acknowledged well outside the right, and its role in policing the movement's fringe is part of its history. Critics on the right say it lost that authority when the party moved without it; critics on the left argue its boundary-policing was less consistent than its admirers remember.