Dearest Reader,

We thank you for picking up a copy of the Fenwick Review. We can think of no better way to introduce our first edition of the 2024-2025 school year than to expound on what the Fenwick Review is. Perhaps the via negativa is best taken to start this task. First, the Fenwick Review is not a monolith; our writers, staff and guests alike, frequently differ and disagree with each other about politics, religion, and more. Not every writer agrees with what is written in the pages of this magazine; indeed there has been and will continue to be fervent disagreement between writers about the ideas contained in each article. Second, as an entity, the Fenwick Review does not “say” or “believe” anything beyond its mission statement, rather, individual people writing for the Fenwick Review say and believe xyz. Now we are in a position to better say what the Fenwick Review is. First, as an opinion journal, the Fenwick Review is a platform for individual writers. Individuals who want to write from a conservative or Catholic perspective choose to publish in the Fenwick Review. Second, the Fenwick Review is partisan; we are both conservative and Catholic. We platform specifically conservative and Catholic thought to contribute to a culture of free and open dialogue on our campus and expose students to both the rich intellectual tradition of American conservatism and the Catholic intellectual tradition. Over the past year now we have been working to reform the Fenwick Review to better contribute to a free, open, and respectful dialogue on campus, while returning to our mission statement to better guide us in our operations here at the Review. We hope that reading our articles will at least inform, challenge, or inspire you. As always, we welcome disagreement and want our peers to interact with the ideas put forth in this edition of the Fenwick Review.

Pax vobiscum,

Griffin Blood ‘26 and Briana Oser ‘25, Co-Editors in Chief