National Review's Magazine Issue
Print this article Once they find out about the April 19, 2021, issue, that morning, at dawning, the birdies will sing, and everything . . . Yes, it is a big and bursting edition, a very special one, about California, and about — leaving it. Assembled into three sections (“What Made California Great,” “California’s Self-Destruction,” and “Can California Be Saved?”) the issue’s twenty pieces cover the rise and fall, the glory-days past and the grim present and the does-it-have-a-chance future, the splendor and the squalor, of dry valleys and washed-up boondoggles, of t...