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Your Weekly Guide to the Best National Review Magazine Articles from the '50s, '60s, and '70s

This Week's Featured Issue: January 30, 1960

Please Enjoy the Following NR Articles . . .

At Havard, Sir, We Do Not Fish For Souls

What About Ayn Rand?
By E. Merrill Root

E. Merrill Root is "troubled by the disavowal of the novelist Ayn Rand by Whittaker Chambers; and now insists that notwithstanding Miss Rand's aggressive atheism, and other stances offensive to a conservative, her works be given the respectful and sympathetic attention of the conservative community." Read the article here.

At Harvard, Sir, We Do Not Fish For Souls
By William F. Buckley Jr.

From the Harvard Crimson (Sept. 16, 1959): "For 323 years, Protestantism has supposedly been the traditional religion of Harvard. The only church in the Yard was consecrated in the Protestant tradition, and until recent years any course on religion taught in the College emphasized Protestant Christianity. Yet the religious attitude at Harvard [these days] actually seems detrimental to Protestantism, since over 26 percent of the [undergraduate] students born in this religion have since rejected it." Read WFB's article on the demise of Protestantism at Harvard here.

The High Cost of Buying American
By John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain explores how European and Asiatic "know-how and technology" in the manufacturing industry undersell American-made goods -- and the "idiotic tax laws" that stifle America's ability to compete. Read the article here.