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Your Weekly Guide to the Best National Review Magazine Articles from the '50s, '60s, and '70s

This Week's Featured Issue: September 24, 1960

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Please Enjoy the Following NR Articles . . .

Unrepresentative Government
By Henry Hazlitt

An astute critic has a look at post-constitutional political conventions, and asks, Why? His proposals are bold -- and feasible. Read the article here.

The Catholic Issue
By L. Brent Bozell

From the "National Trends" column. Bozell refutes the conventional wisdom about the religious biases of voters. "Having made all the wrong guesses about how the country would react to a Catholic's candidacy, . . . the guardians of the nation's mores and morals then proceeded . . .to give all the wrong advice on how to keep the issue within rational bounds." Read the article here.

The Young Americans for Freedom
By William F. Buckley, Jr.

WFB reports on the founding of a new organization. He writes that it will do many of the things that organizations on the Left do, but with an important difference: "They talk about affecting history; we have talked about educating people to want to affect history." Read the piece here.