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October 2009

Welcome, National Affairs

In April 2005, after a run of forty years, The Public Interest, the distinguished quarterly founded by Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol, ceased publication. It was a sad moment for anyone interested in intelligent analysis and debate about the direction of the American polity. It is with pleasure, therefore, that we welcome the advent of National Affairs, the successor to The Public Interest, whose inaugural issue appeared last month.

The handsome new quarterly (and it is a special pleasure to see such attractive typography and graphic design) is edited by Yuval Levin, a prolific journalist and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. In his opening editorial, Mr. Levin writes that National Affairs will aspire to

help Americans think a little more clearly about the challenges of gove ...

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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 October 2009, on page 3

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