| Dear Friend, Ian Tuttle personifies so much of what the National Review Institute means, what it offers, what it has accomplished. Who is Ian Tuttle? If you read NRO regularly, you already know: He is one of the brightest, most talented reporters and polemicists writing today. And I must add, young: But a few years out of St. John's College, Ian has, until recently, served as NRI's Buckley Journalism Fellow. Heck yeah, he was born talented, but those talents -- thanks to the Buckley program and the great training provided by Rich Lowry and National Review's accomplished editors -- have been finely honed. In a movement that cries out for the development of young writers who can pack a punch, who can be influential, well, that's precisely what we have in Ian (and at what granny would call "a tender young age"). 
Your support of the Institute -- soliciting such is the purpose of the missive, so please, make your generous contribution here -- is central to the project of training young writers, poised to be quite consequential, which was something near and dear to the heart of Bill Buckley. Is that near and dear to your heart too? It should be, and it probably is. In the battle for ideas, often fought and waged in the forums of the mainstream media, what conservatism needs are talented young men and women, like Ian (and like his Buckley Fellow replacement, Alexandra DeSanctis, newly graduated from Notre Dame), who will make a real difference by uncovering the Leftist scheme, by explaining the SJW plot, by out-arguing the progressive propagandist. Help this critical project by making a tax-deductible contribution to the National Review Institute. And do that knowing that your contribution to NRI will be doubled. True that: 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, and the Buckley Journalism Fellowship? This is Day 3 of NRI's effort. We need good conservative men and women to be part of this important project. Bill Buckley created NRI 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 P.S.: If Ian is being replaced, does that mean . . . he is leaving? Well, no: Ian has just been named the Thomas L. Rhodes Journalism Fellow (the program, now "housed" at NRI, is named in honor of National Review's former president, and generously supported by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation). Kudos! And here is the latest piece by Ian, published today on NRO. It's well worth your time, as is everything he writes. | 
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