The March 23, 2020 issue of National Review is off the presses, piping hot and in the mail. See you in a couple of days . . . unless you are an NRPLUS member. If so, you’ll find all of its contents available right now, right here. There really is so much good stuff to be found in this new issue, which sports on the cover a particularly good Roman Genn caricature announcing Kyle Smith’s profile of the newly ex-candidate Michael Bloomberg, whose spending has proven that money may buy campaign staff but can’t buy love. Read Kyle’s piece here. Elsewhere between the Table of Contents and David Harsanyi’s back-page Happy Warrior column (a powerful takedown of nonchalance toward Marxism and its fellow-travelers), you will find a trove of wise articles and reviews. We’ll recommend a few, such as Andrew McCarthy’s masterful essay calling for the end to the “unconstitutional mess” that is the FISA court (read it here), Ramesh Ponnuru and Yuval Levin jointly pen a must-read analysis of the past and future of reform conservatism, and, with the coronavirus spread on the minds of so many, Victor Davis Hanson’s lesson on plagues ancient and modern, and their historical consequences.
Elsewhere in the issue, there is Jay Nordlinger’s profile of the brave Oyub Titiev, who is fighting to halt human-rights abuses in Chechnya (you’ll find it here), and a special trio of technology-section articles worth everyone’s consideration, including the lead piece by Charlie Cooke, who counters the claim that our promised technological future hasn’t come, nor ever will. Read it here. And we have to give The Boss his due: Rich Lowry pens a glowing review, found here, of Mike Eruzione’s memoir, The Making of a Miracle.
We find ourselves still in March’s early days, and many have likely already hit their monthly free-articles threshold. Dang! Oh sure, there is copious free content on NationalReview.com, but when it comes to magazine pieces — always exceptional, each and every one — well, three-for free is the limit. But there is no limit for NRPLUS members, a happy band which really must include you. Join here.