From my perch on the left, I've never thought of Crisis as a "great publication", but I have thought of it as a good and decent one.  They may be at a crossroads with this issue and this writer.
For what it's worth: Although it has been a bit uneven over the years, I have generally regarded National Review as a great publication -- especially in the early Buckley years. Of course, I was a conservative then.  I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. <g>