Dear Reader,

Thank you for reading the March/April issue of The Fenwick Review. It’s about time that we let it clear the press.

Given that our writers usually have entirely different ideas about what they should cover in the next version of the Review— ergo the “Holy Cross’ Independent Journal of Opinion”—we most often do not create themed issues. However, after reading through the series of articles on these pages, it seems that there’s a common sentiment floating about. We all are looking back fondly on the past.

Mr. Foley’s article about sacrifice, Mr. Buzzard’s about St. Patrick’s Day, and Dr. Thomas Craig’s article on Holy Cross Athletics all explicitly look backward. They gesture to an older, finer time, where reverence and excellence were virtues held in higher esteem. As for Mr. Pietro’s article? The United States surely would not have dared entertain socialism 70 years ago. Mr. Brennan’s article begs the question of why, now, so few people have thick skins. Ms. Anderson’s article and Mr. Rosenwinkel’s articles push us to recall a time when Catholicism was not lukewarm.

This issue of The Fenwick Review, thus, has a keen sense for tradition, whether it be our economic policies, athletic excellence, fervency in the Church, and so on. We hearken back to tradition because, in these so chaotic times, we desire it.

In G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy, he quotes: “Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.” Let us not forget what they have given us, for it is they who brought us here.

Seamus Brennan & Michael Raheb

Co-Editors-in-Chief