2020 comes to an end in 2026 on the verge of arrival.

We'll discuss all this and more in the special year-end edition of the editors.

I'm Richard Leroy, and I'm joined, as always, by the Wright Honorable Charles C.W. Cook, the Goldmaster, Phil Klein, and the notorious M.B.D.

Michael Brennan Doherty, you are, of course, listening to a National Review podcast.

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So before we get into it in earnest, let me share a message from our friends at the University of Austin.

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and thanks to patriotic donors, tuition at UATX is completely free forever. To apply to the University of Austin, visit uaustin.org, that's U-A-U-S org you austin dot org please check it out so a little programming note

we are pre-recording because of the holiday schedule this year-end podcast a little bit before

the actual end of the year.

So if there's some massive news story that's happened, that's not covered here,

that's the reason why.

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