Culture11 Shutting Down

I’ve been informed that Culture11, the five-month-old conservative web magazine launched by Bill Bennett, former Bush administration faith policy guru David Kuo, and former Family Research Council/Huckabee for President blogger Joe Carter is shutting its doors in two weeks.

The site (full disclosure: I’ve written for it), patterned a bit after Slate, with a big social networking component, has been a source for contrarian, largely libertarian-leaning commentary on pop culture and Republican politics. Word was it had enough funding to last through 2010; the tanking economy changed that picture.

I’m told that the magazine’s content will stay online, and that the site might stay alive in some form, but staffers are already talking (and twittering) about their next moves.

UPDATE: One editor at the magazine tells me that the staff “actually all got fired yesterday. So, we’re, like, closed. Kaput.”

Expect to see some of them drowning their sorrows at a happy hour held tonight by America’s Future Foundation, a young libertarian/conservative social network.