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Article: Why I read National Review.(NR's Guide to the New Majority)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 11, 1995
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I SPENT much of my life unfamiliar with NATIONAL REVIEW. Don't misunderstand--I was aware of its existence; just as I knew there was such a thing as gravity, and such a thing as oxygen, I knew there was a NATIONAL REVIEW: I had simply never seen it. As I grew more and more interested in politics, I noticed that people I respected referred to it, quoted it, discussed articles that appeared in it. And whenever I saw the incomparable William F. Buckley Jr. On television he would be introduced as founding editor of the magazine. The sound of the title alone was impressive. NATIONAL REVIEW. It called to mind vast libraries and enormous founts of critical intelligence.
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