Introduction

THE 50th anniversary of NA-TIONAL REVIEW is a very big deal, and you’re holding in your hands a big-deal issue. It runs to 120 pages, includes multiple sections, and boasts a cast of thousands. Actually, about 70-that’s (roughly) the number who have contributed. Do you want a little overview?

The issue begins, essentially, with The Week, our editorial section, still called “The Week” even though we became a biweekly in 1958, three years after we started publication. Your Notes & Asides is very special: WFB publishes the remarks he made at our anniversary gala in October. (We had another gala about five weeks later, in celebration of WFB’s 80th birthday. Stay tuned for material on that in our next issue—a non-anniversary one, but still distinguished, we hope you’ll agree.)

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THE 50th anniversary of NA-TIONAL REVIEW is a very big deal, and you’re holding in your hands a big-deal issue. It runs to 120 pages, includes multiple sections, and boasts a cast of thousands. Actually, about 70-that’s (roughly) the number who have contributed. Do you want a little overview?

The issue begins, essentially, with The Week, our editorial section, still called “The Week” even though we became a biweekly in 1958, three years after we started publication. Your Notes & Asides is very special: WFB publishes the remarks he made at our anniversary gala in October. (We had another gala about five weeks later, in celebration of WFB’s 80th birthday. Stay tuned for material on that in our next issue—a non-anniversary one, but still distinguished, we hope you’ll agree.)