Original sentence: While the ideological makeup of its staff shifts over the years, the paper has maintained strident criticism of Cornell's perceived left-wing politics and political correctness, delivered with a signature anti-establishment insolence—sometimes making the Review a controversy in itself
Edited sentence: While the ideological makeup of its staff shifts over the years, the paper has maintained strident criticism of Cornell's perceived left-wing politics and political correctness, delivered with a signature (and ironic) anti-establishment insolence—sometimes making the Review a controversy in itself