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As you might have noticed, everyone has lost their minds.
Conservatives of long standing have joined the other side, or essentially declared themselves non-combatants in the nation’s ongoing political contentions.
Another class of people on the right make it their business — often, literally — to find any excuse to justify or ignore the latest indefensible eruption from our former president.
And, all the while, the Left uses every instrument possible, whether blunt or subtle, whether within our institutions or on our streets, to advance an ideology so lunatic and fevered that it might give the Girondins pause.
Now, more than ever, there’s a need for what Bill Buckley called “right reason” — principled but not self-important, fierce but not unhinged, and fundamentally committed to speaking the truth and defending our nation from internal and external threats.
And that’s what you get every day at National Review.
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As I like to say, if National Review didn’t exist, no one would invent it — not in today’s divisive, highly commercial, clickbait-driven environment.
We do reporting no one else will do. Seriously, who’s going to care enough and take the time to dig into the trans-radicalism of the LGBT advocacy groups supported by Major League Baseball?
Who’s going to talk in-depth to a student falsely accused of sexual assault, or delve into whether the Georgia “fake” electors really did anything illegal, or give a forum to a fire-department chaplain fired for his politically incorrect views on males competing in girls’ sports, or push back against the nonsense about climate change destroying the Great Barrier Reef?
Who is going to have a journalist almost wholly dedicated to countering every bit of faddish and insidious nonsense about gender?
Is there any other publication that has been as relentless and excoriating about Joe Biden’s lawless student-loan-forgiveness program?
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We believe long-form journalism hasn’t gone out of style. Where else are you going to get a comprehensive, utterly authoritative account of the history of slavery that Nikole Hannah-Jones felt compelled to respond to, exposing herself in the process?
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Finally, there’s debate. Everyone says they favor it, but is there any place else that brings together smart people who have different views on conservative strategy, tactics, and philosophy, and lets them have at it, in an abiding belief that clashing views based on shared principles are a sign of health and help establish the truth?
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