National Review stands for timeless principles, but we’re about to get a fresh look. Starting this week, we will begin publishing larger and more handsome issues on a monthly basis.
This shift will enable us to run more regular features and longer essays, to take more time to plan issues, and more generally to capitalize on the necessity of providing something that goes beyond commenting on day-to-day events. National Review Online will of course continue to have more of a here-and-now focus. We are also launching an email version of the Week that will run — and this may be our most radical change — weekly for our subscribers.
At the same time, we admit the chief drawback of the new dispensation, which is that we will have to work more assiduously to drop the word “fortnightly” into regular conversation.
The redesigned magazine will combine beauty and heft, just as its prose has always done. We hope our readers will find delight in its pages, even if not always in what they chronicle.