| Dear Jolter, There's plenty of wonderful stuff to read today on NRO, but before we do, I'd like to thank the vacationing Jim Geraghty for allowing me to muck around in his brand while he slathers on the sunblock at his private getaway resort. Or maybe he's spending the week painting the kids' bedrooms. Anyway, he'll be back next week, and tomorrow, NR's offices are closed for Good Friday. So you'll be rid of me with a little more scrolling. But before that happens: Here are a few suggested NRO pieces to read. · Rich Lowry's Corner post may have the record for longest-ever title: "In Case You Are Keeping Track at Home, NATO is In, Russia is Out, the Ex-Im Bank is In, Labelling China a Currency Manipulator is Out, and Janet Yellen is TBD" · David French pens a bracing report, "A Suicide in Texas," about how the ugly combination of victim-mongering and virtue-signaling college bureaucrats produced a dead young man at the University of Texas in Arlington. Read it. Share it. · Kyle Smith is now in the saddle as NRO's new critic-at-large. Today he has a thoughtful reflection on "Paul McCartney's Neglected Masterpiece." You might want to read it with the sound on. · Speaking of sound on, later today, a new edition of NR's popular weekly podcast, The Editors, will be out and available. Check back here in the late afternoon to get the latest wisdom from Rich, Charlie, Reihan, and Ian. Ga Ga Goo Goo. Senator Ben Sasse has a book coming out in a few weeks, The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Build a Culture of Self-Reliance. I've just gotten my hands on some galleys (you can order a copy of the hardcover at Amazon — it's out on May 17) and will dive in this weekend. Why? Well, with promotional copy like this… America's youth are in crisis. Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government programs, they are ill-equipped to survive in our highly-competitive global economy. . . . how can I not? Now if you're going to judge this book, at least let me show you the cover: 
Speaking of Covers. Here's the cover of the new issue (May 1, 2017) of National Review, out tomorrow. 
Say what . . . you are not a subscriber? Well, you can correct that, right here. We've got a special introductory rate (16 beautiful issues for only $19.95). If you prefer a digital subscription — the same as the magazine, except it comes to you magically through the ether, sans paper, you can get that here. WFB Memorial Issue. Yet another cover, alas, but we are moving later this year, and in the shifting-through-this / uncovering-that process, we've discovered a small box with less than two dozen copies of the March 24, 2008, issue dedicated to Bill, brimming with tributes. This is one of NR's all-time most-desired editions. If you'd like one of the few remaining copies, you can order it here. 
Nutmeggery. My dear friend, Joe Markley, is a Republican state senator from the Constitution State (he has also written for NRO, including this classic hit on liberal Dem Governor Dan Malloy, "In Connecticut, the Limits of Governing by Spleen"). Joe is widely and correctly regarded as the most principled, articulate, and consequential conservative in Hartford. (Fun fact: When he first ran for the legislature in 1984, Bill Buckley campaigned for him.) Last week Joe announced that he will be running for Lieutenant Governor in 2018, which thrills many of us, including the great Don Pesci (another NR writer alumnus), who has penned this wonderful piece on Candidate Markley. Find out more about Joe here. Elsewhere . . . A couple of days back on ESPN, our old pal Will Cain mixed it up with Stephen A. Smith, who got all triggered because the Dallas Mavericks hosted a pre-game celebration honoring Dallas Cowboys retiring quarterback Tony Romo…who is white…and damn, SAS fumed that this kind of hoopla/kudos never happens to or for a black man. Maybe he missed the (endless!) Derek Jeter and David Ortiz retirement tours? Regardless: Will was having none of it. You can watch the turbo-charged dust-up here. KLo Newsletter. Did you know Kathryn Jean Lopez, in her duties overseeing the National Review Institute's Center for Religion, Culture, and Civil Society, writes a delightful and informative weekly e-mail on matters pertaining to such? You should be getting it. Sign up here. Having tested and tried your patience, I'd like to wish all believers in the Bible, whether you subscribe to the First and/or Second Testaments, and even should you hold to neither, God's blessings and graces in this Holy Week that brings us both Passover and Easter. And also brings us true Hope. Darkness vanishes forever! Best, Jack Fowler P.S.: www.nrcruise.com. Need I say anything else? | 
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