The July 4th holiday weekend saw conservatives sailing into Independence Day with three smashing victories for constitutional jurisprudence handed down by the Supreme Court: Justice Neil Gorsuch stirringly upheld freedom of religious conscience in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, while John Roberts himself struck down both President Biden’s illegal student-loan “relief” power-grab (in Biden v. Nebraska) and affirmative action in college admissions (in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard).

It was a great day for freedom, as they say, and yet it has come at a cost. The Supreme Court has since been under near-constant assault by the Left (using the mainstream media as its megaphone) with a series of entirely spurious “ethics allegations” against the conservative wing of the Court. None of them have any merit whatsoever (not even the one against Sonia Sotomayor — we are consistent on this point) and we vehemently reject the underlying goal: to delegitimize the third branch of government as a whole. The activist Left understands that someday (someday possibly very soon, in fact), they will have unified control of the federal government, and all that will stand in their way is the judiciary.

And National Review. If you care about defending the legitimacy of the Court as a bulwark against tyranny, then you should join us at NRPLUS, where we fight that battle daily. If you care about detailed coverage of the judicial stakes for the nation — not just the cases and controversies of the day, but also the overarching philosophy of judicial conservatism, and why this battle is so crucial for the preservation of American liberties — then I invite you to join us with a membership at a 60% discount.

National Review has some of the best legal conservative writers in America on its staff, whose work you can only read with NRPLUS access. The prosecutorial experience of Andy McCarthy has been an invaluable guide for the perplexed recently when it comes to explaining Donald Trump’s various legal jeopardies (and which ones are legitimate versus political hit jobs). When Dan McLaughlin writes about the law, he does it with over a decade’s worth of high-level litigation and appellate practice. I would wager that Charles C. W. Cooke — who, amusingly, is not even a lawyer — knows more about Second Amendment and free-speech jurisprudence than at least 50% of constitutional law professors. And they even let me write sometimes!

With a 60% discount, that comes out to 80 cents per week for the ability to read all of that and so much more. As the “new guy” at National Review (I am in fact entirely new to professional writing) one of the joys of this place is how much all of our other interests — be they musical, cinematic, or even cetacean — inevitably find their way into the pages of NR as well. National Review stands for sober and probing analysis of the most important issues facing America . . . but we do have a lot of fun around here, too.

One other thing: When I was growing up in the liberal Washington, D.C., suburbs of the Clinton era, National Review was only slightly less difficult to find than samizdat in post-1968 Czechoslovakia. (I still remember traveling to my local library to find the one copy they would hide in the dusty back corner.) Each article or witty turn of the phrase would disappear eventually back to its shelf for me, to be retained only as a memory, or maybe forgotten altogether.

Now, with NRPLUS, it’s all here at your fingertips, and it’s always current: We’re on top of events. It’s the all-in-one package for digital access: Not only do you get the latest daily essays and observations in the Corner, as well as our usual array of articles, you also get everything in the print magazine and a remarkably full archive of older material, some of it written about matters less pressing than the fate of the Supreme Court. It is, quite simply, a ridiculous bargain for the sheer array of quality writing, up-to-date news and analysis, and serious intellectual and cultural critique you’re getting. (As for me — I’m just here to write the killer whale stories.) You can even leave comments underneath our articles, so I hope to see you there in the responses soon telling me to stop using so many parenthetical phrases.

Stay cool this summer, folks.