He’d Have Been 92 Today

Jack Fowler

As is our custom, the offices of National Review are closed the day following Thanksgiving. The turkey does make you groggy, after all. Never mind the hard cider.

But a day without a Jolt? Perish that thought. We’ll keep it short and sweet, but keep it we will -- enjoy this classic piece by Bill Buckley on gratitude.

By the way, today would have been Bill’s 92nd birthday. My colleagues at NRO put together a terrific photo essay ...

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March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

'The Red Wheel is a sprawling and fascinating mix of philosophical and moral discernment, literary inventiveness, and historical insight that sometimes strains the novelistic form, but is also one of the great works of moral and political instruction of the twentieth century.'
- Daniel J. Mahoney, co-editor, The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings

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