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Dear Friend, We're thrilled to announce the National Review Post-Election Cruise , taking place November 13-20, 2016, on Holland America Line's beautiful Nieuw Amsterdam , sailing to and from Ft. Lauderdale and visiting the beautiful Caribbean ports of Grand Cayman, Cozumel, Key West, and Half Moon Cay. The terrific speaker lineup -- there to make sense of the elections and so much more -- will include acclaimed historian Victor Davis Hanson , former Congressman Allen West , terrorism and defense experts Bing West , Andrew McCarthy , and John Hillen , Independent Women's Forum chairman Heather Higgins , conservative icon James Buckley , best-selling author Steven Hayward , Americans United for Life president Charmaine Yoest , conservative legal expert Ed Whelan , NRO editor-at-large Kathryn Lopez , Commentar y editor John Podhoretz , former NR Washington Editor and WFB expert Neal Freeman , NR senior editor...

January 30, 2016     This week was National School Choice Week , so here is a reminder that the evidence is in on school choice: it works. “In political terms, the most controversial school-choice policies are those that include tax breaks or vouchers for families who opt for private schooling. In academic terms, however, such policies are not nearly as controversial. For one thing, policies that facilitate private school choice and competition have been studied more extensively by academic researchers than many other reforms — 127 times, by our count, since 1990. In 65 percent of the studies, researchers found positive, statistically significant benefits for students. Moreover, on the closely related question of whether private schools really outperform public schools when adjustments are made for student demographics and other background variables, there is even more empirical research — 230 studies, by o...

If this email is difficult to read, view it on the web .   January 29, 2016     The Goldberg File by Jonah Goldberg       Dear Reader (including those of you who feel entitled to a jocular parenthetical statement every frick'n week), Let me just say I'm in a foul mood. I know, I know, Trump supporters will declare, "Your tears are delicious!" But that's not right. First, I'm not weeping -- that, I suspect, may come later -- and my dyspepsia is only partly driven by Trump mania. Save for the joy my daughter and my dogs took from the massive snowstorm, this last wee...