From Charity to Compassion

I will tell you a Philadelphia Society secret: reporters are not allowed at its national meetings. There are always a couple of national review editors present, but nobody thinks we qualify. So, the rule is kept, yet once a year you get some report of this most pleasant and fertile of conservative gatherings.

And an NR trade secret: the job is rotated informally among the editors, partly to keep a fresh outlook, mostly to see if anyone can think up something new to say about the unvarying meeting routine, which is as familiar and comfy as cotton. I’m not even going to try.

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Timothy Wheeler

I will tell you a Philadelphia Society secret: reporters are not allowed at its national meetings. There are always a couple of national review editors present, but nobody thinks we qualify. So, the rule is kept, yet once a year you get some report of this most pleasant and fertile of conservative gatherings.

And an NR trade secret: the job is rotated informally among the editors, partly to keep a fresh outlook, mostly to see if anyone can think up something new to say about the unvarying meeting routine, which is as familiar and comfy as cotton. I’m not even going to try.