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September
9, 2003, 1:00 p.m.
Milestone
in Publishing
National
Review goes digital.
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arly in the last century, T. S. Eliot wrote Wilfred Owen about
a new tool for writers, the typewriter. He thought it would increase facility,
but wondered if it would allow for sufficient thought.
When I first came to work at NRODT we still used manual typewriters (Royal
Standards). Great machines, but time has gathered them to the passenger
pigeon and the Great Auk. Join National Review in the next phase
of journalism in its digital incarnation.
The genre of the magazine has been an amazingly successful thing since
the early 18th century in London. (Samuel Johnson got his start doing
hackwork for The Gentleman's Magazine.) We still have great talent
— some of them start doing hackwork — and we still try to analyze
events with a certain seriousness and what at least passes these days
for gentility. No eye gouging, please, unless absolutely necessary.
One year after NRODT started in 1955, an Anglo-French-Israeli attempt
to rebuke Nasser collapsed before American and Soviet pressure, and Hungarian
freedom fighters were shot down in the streets. Ten years into our life
the Great Society was lifting us to eudemonia. Twenty years into our life
the last helicopter took off in humiliation from Saigon; Richard Nixon
had already helicoptered away from the White House.
Today, the world Communist enterprise is shattered. Conservatism has
won all the rhetorical battles of small government, and none of the real
ones. We find ourselves in a mortal struggle with perverted desert savages.
New days, new forms. Join
us.
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