The National Review 50th Naniverasy Gala 2005
National Review magazine celebrated its 50th anniversary in Washington last night with a big black tie gala at the National Building Museum in DC -- a very nice affair. President Bush also honored the magazine's founder William F. Buckley Jr. at the White House earlier in the day. The dinner, included a moving 50 minute video -- . The documentary traced the magazine's insightful and often humorous commentary on politics, public policy and culture over the last half century. It also paid tribute to many of the talented writers associated with the magazine during the past 50 years. While one of Buckley's famous lines about conservatism is that it "stands athwart history shouting stop," you very much got the sense from last night that conservative ideas have been moving along and influencing the river of history dramatically over the last five decades. It reminded me again how the power of ideas and the written word shape the world in which we live.

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