Sixty Years with National Review: An Interim Report

There will be no objectivity here. Boy and man, I have loved National Review. It is one of the few publications that has consistently sought the truth and celebrated the good even as it prosecutes just wars against the vile and the vicious.

Has NR’s performance been unexceptionable? I doubt that even our public-relations person would ever make such claim. (Well, almost never. During my own brief tenure in the role, I once heard myself make that very claim.) But year in, year out, has any publication done it better? Or longer? None that I know of.

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Neal B. Freeman

Neal B. Freeman, businessman and journalist, was a director of National Review Inc. for 38 years.

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There will be no objectivity here. Boy and man, I have loved National Review. It is one of the few publications that has consistently sought the truth and celebrated the good even as it prosecutes just wars against the vile and the vicious.

Has NR’s performance been unexceptionable? I doubt that even our public-relations person would ever make such claim. (Well, almost never. During my own brief tenure in the role, I once heard myself make that very claim.) But year in, year out, has any publication done it better? Or longer? None that I know of.