Dear Reader (Including those of you having this read to you while you white-knuckle the steering wheel trying to get to wherever you're going for the weekend at the pace of Zeno's arrow),

We've had so many good times. The volcano lancing, the sweatiest-movie-ever polls, the homage to women's prison movies, and of course, our debate about the best necrophiliac gay-porn title to describe the Florida recount ("Hanging Chad" was my pick). I feel like Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" should be playing in the background as we flash back to scenes like the first time I walked into the National Review offices wearing my spaghetti-strainer codpiece. (Note: I'm evoking the song's perceived meaning of wistful nostalgia from its presence in TV show finales and graduation parties, not its actual, slightly harsher meaning.) That look on Priscilla Buckley's face!

I'm getting all verklempt because this is my penultimate "news"letter under the National Review shingle, and I don't know what to do about it. I'm sitting in my car in a parking lot for some nature ...

May 24 2019

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The Problem with Certainty Jonah Goldberg Dear Reader (Including those of you having this read to you while you white-knuckle the steering wheel trying to get to wherever you're going for the weekend at the pace of Zeno's arrow), We've had so many good times. The volcano lancing, the sweatiest-movie-ever polls, the homage to women's prison movies, and of course, our debate about the best necrophiliac gay-porn title to describe the Florida recount ("Hanging Chad" was my pick). I feel like Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" should be playing in the background as we flash back to scenes like the first time I walked into the National Review offices wearing my spaghetti-strainer codpiece. (Note: I'm evoking the song's perceived meaning of wistful nostalgia from its presence in TV show finales and graduation parties, not its actual, slightly harsher meaning.) That look on Priscilla Buckley's face! I'm getting all verklempt because this is my penultimate "news"letter under the National Review shingle, and I don't know what to do about it. I'm sitting in my car in a parking lot for some nature ... Read More ADVERTISEMENT Top Stories TV Before PC Kyle Smith As Hollywood became a country club for the upper class, it grew ever more squeamish dealing with the endless possibilities of class, feeling on much firmer ground sticking with race. Will Smith Goes from Genie to Uncle Remus in Aladdin Armond White It might horrify progressives to realize that Smith's apparition springs from the same folkloric showbiz as does blackface minstrelsy. Blueface makes the Genie seem much more congenial. Federal Judge Blocks Mississippi Abortion Law Mairead McArdle A federal judge on Friday blocked enforcement of a new Mississippi law that bans abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. ADVERTISEMENT Liberate Americans to Shop for Medical Care Deroy Murdock Almost no one has any idea what medical care costs. The Worst Cover-Up of All Time Rich Lowry President Donald Trump may be guilty of many things, but a cover-up in the Mueller probe isn't one of them. Josh Hawley versus the Aristocracy Michael Brendan Dougherty From grilling a Trump judicial nominee on religious-freedom issues, a high-profile op-ed musing about the parasitic nature of social-media companies, to a series of legislative sorties fired over Silicon Valley, Missouri senator Josh Hawley is making waves. The Case for Taking Psychedelics Seriously Sahil Handa Psychedelics are not toys that young people want to abuse for a good time; they are powerful, life-altering substances that could be the equivalent of a telescope for our studies of the mind. It is time for conservatives to begin taking these drugs seriously. If they do, society at large will benefit. French Authorities Investigating Lyon Explosion as Potential Terror Attack Mairead McArdle French authorities are treating an explosion in the city of Lyon on Friday evening as a possible terror attack. ADVERTISEMENT GIVE THE GIFT OF NR Gift Your Grad! Move that special grad in your life in the right direction. Enter coupon code MYGRAD at checkout to get 60% off all NR gift subscriptions. SEE MY OPTIONS Photo Essays Cannes Film Festival Brooklyn Bridge History ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.