Introduction

The New CENTURY

THESE are the best of times, to borrow a famous phrase from Charles Dickens, and the worst of times as well. Being sane men and women, we know that we have to make of it what we can. It was always so, and always will be. And yet the clicking up on Father Time’s speedometer of another millennium brings with it a sense of adventure, in which fear, alas, is a component. How are things going to turn out? NATIONAL REVIEW takes the opportunity to offer its own Guide for the Perplexed.