Dear Reader,

Thank you for picking up a copy of The Fenwick Review. We realize we are inaugurating the year a little late, so we appreciate your patience. We are sure you will find this issue is well worth the wait.

Indeed, in addition to a collection of great articles as usual, we are happy to announce the beginning of a new section to our publication: The Review Reviews! As the title suggests, this new section will include reviews by our writers of any variety of media, whether books, movies, music, and perhaps even art installations. We cannot wait to see how this project develops and changes. We also hope that it provides you with at least a few suggestions to add to your reading, watching, or listening lists (which we are sure are not already worryingly long). As always with The Review, we gear these reviews towards a conservative audience, but this might also provide some insights to our liberal readers about how conservatives engage with media. So, it should be a boon for all.

There are other plans in the works as well, though at the forefront of our minds is the expansion of our alumni network. At The Fenwick Review, our success is due in a large part to our donors, many of whom are Holy Cross alumni. While we develop concrete strategies, we encourage you all to spread our name and our mission to other alumni you think would be interested in our writing. We have come to realize there are many conservative alumni and parents who don not know who we are. Hopefully, with your help, we can show them that our common values are still present on Mount St. James.

We wish you all well and truly hope you will profit from reading this edition of The Fenwick Review. Until next time.

Sincerely,

Andrew Buck & John Pietro, Co-Editors-in-Chief