The Claremont Institute, a staunch outpost of conservative ideas out in California, home to the legendary, recently deceased Harry Jaffa, announced a new class of Publius Fellows this week — young conservative thinkers and writers who will spend a couple weeks taking part in what Jonah once described as “kind of like intellectual special-forces training” with the institute’s top scholars.

Happily, two of the fellows are current NR staffers: Ian Tuttle, a William F. Buckley Fellow and former NR intern who arrived here from St. John’s College, and Nat Brown, an associate editor formerly of Heritage, Capitol Hill, and (gasp) Brown and Wisconsin-Madison. A few others have NR connections: Spencer Case, a philosophy Ph.D. student at Colorado, is a former NR intern, and a number of other 2015 fellows have written for NR: AEI’s Max Eden and Alexis Knutsen, as has Michael Cowett, a Massachusetts fiscal and political analyst. “If you think Harry Jaffa is hard to argue with, try agreeing with him,” WFB once quipped about Jaffa, but it seems easy enough for us to agree with the institution he’s left behind.

You can read the full list of new Publius fellows here; congratulations to all of them. I and other current and former NR staffers have benefited from Publius and other Claremont fellowships in the past — I would heartily recommend those eligible in the future to apply.