Even so, I feel like I’m amputating part of my soul. I’ll be staying on as a fellow at the National Review Institute and staying in touch with everybody.
Also, while I may be leaving the magazine, I’m not leaving the family. There are so many friends and colleagues I am grateful for that if I start naming them, I’ll run the risk of forgetting someone or using up this entire “news”letter calling the roll of my indebtedness. It roughly means to include is to exclude, and he often invoked the phrase to explain why he couldn’t thank everyone in attendance at a meeting or talk. He’d say it like it was a normal thing for a person to say. Speaking of Bill Buckley - another object of my eternal gratitude - he liked to say “Lowry, what were you thinking hiring this guy?” But he also liked to say, “Expressio Unius Est Exclusio Alterius.” Really.
I often say he hired me to pay me back for saving his life in prison - WFB loved that joke - but the truth is, he took a flier on me early in his role as editor, and I’m eternally grateful for it. My appreciation for you, Dear Readers, is only exceeded by my appreciation for my friends and colleagues here at NR, starting of course with Rich Lowry. I’ve made real and lasting friendships - in the meat space, not just in the digital space - with some of you, and I’ve learned a ton from a lot of you. But as a collective, I cannot begin to express how much the National Review audience has meant to me over the years, starting in 1998 when I joined NR and started the Goldberg File (a blog before we had the word, then a column, then a “news”letter, and, soon, a dessert topping and a floor wax), straight through the launches of NRO, the Corner, and all the rest. What I want to say up front is: I love you. It will soon fly under a new banner, one might even say a pirate flag. This is my last G-File under the National Review flag. Subscribe here to get the G-File delivered to your inbox on Fridays. EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is Jonah Goldberg’s weekly “news”letter, the G-File.
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