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A grateful parting from National Review, Monday, April 4, 2022.

Introduction.

I first subscribed to National Review when I was still in high school.

This was probably around 1969, which means that I've been a dutiful subscriber for about

53 years now.

I bring this up because I'm about to let my subscription lapse, a reality which should

come to pass any day now.

That's over half a century, which is a pretty good run.

But I also think it is long enough for I to require some sort of explanation from me,

a statement in which I also want to express my profound gratitude.

But also, where I also state my reason for being done.

The basic reason.

And so as not to keep you in suspense, let me get straight to it.

National Review isn't that much fun anymore.

I realized that this requires an explanation and hence this blog post.

With the political bulk amization that has gripped pretty much everyone and everything,

it would be easy for somebody to assume that I was walking away from what I considered

to be political heresy, or that I was mad about some position or others that they took

editorially, or that I was a grumpy trumpy, or that I was about to shake the dust off

my sandals because they were no longer, quote unquote, true conservatives.

No, nothing at all like that.

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