|  . . . then you'd probably be an NRI Fellow too. Dear Friend, Here on Day 9 of the Institute's "Spring Into Summer Fund Drive," in which we ask for your support of this vital institution, we're talking about another of NRI's phenomenal fellows, Kevin D. Williamson. Once upon a time, when Kevin toiled at the NR World Headquarters in Manhattan, I had the pleasure of having my office next to his. He is a remarkable guy: kind, friendly, concerned, considerate, funny, charming. 
(And he can really pull off a version of "The People's Eyebrow," no?) But then, so are a lot of people who could not, in a series of lifetimes, write just one paragraph with the style and force and brilliance that KDW produces, relentlessly, whether on a keyboard or probably even with a broken crayon. Left or Right, many consider him America's most talented wordsmith, and for good reason. He has a gift that is intensified by his profound sense of insight, and his willingness to take on just about any subject, from economics to welfare in Appalachia to America's drug epidemic to how progressivism turns big cities into horror shows (his pieces on Detroit and East St. Louis are triumphs of reporting and analysis). Through his writing, his books (including The End Is Near and It's Going To Be Awesome) to his terrific Mad Dogs and Englishmen podcast with Charlie Cooke, Kevin matters very much to how conservativism deals with reality. He is, in a word, consequential. In two words, damn consequential. Will you please help support Kevin, and NRI's other fellows -- including Andy McCarthy, Victor Davis Hanson, Jonah Goldberg, Jay Nordlinger, Kathryn Jean Lopez, Reihan Salam, and John O'Sullivan -- and the Institute's important and influential programs? You can do that by making a tax-deductible contribution -- and knowing that your contribution to NRI will be doubled. Yep: Thanks to a generous supporter, every dollar contributed to NRI over the course of this "Spring into Summer Fund Drive" will be matched dollar-for-dollar. We need to raise $100,000 from our supporters by June 30th: Can we count on you to help us reach this goal? To help us carry on the work of NRI, of Kevin, and of the many things it accomplishes in the name of our mutually shared principles? Please know that Bill Buckley created NRI (25 years ago!) to further articulate and advance the mission he first established through National Review. If you care about that mission, if you care about the conservative cause, if you care to support NRI's fellows, who have such a tremendous impact -- and you do! -- then please make your tax-deductible contribution to the National Review Institute by June 30th, and see your generosity . . . doubled! Many thanks and God bless. Best, Jack Fowler
Publisher, National Review
Trustee, National Review Institute
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