Special Edition: Our New Schedule

“It's not the numbers that are interesting. It's what they tell us about the lives behind the numbers.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Since launching The Modern Whig Leader, we've been testing a few different alternatives for scheduling, presentation and features. We have all the essentials of our framework in place, but thanks to the feedback and comments we've gotten from our subscribers, we've changed the delivery time for The Sunday Wire.

Going forward, we'll post the Wire at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time every Sunday rather than at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. The very intelligent input we've gotten from our subscribers, plus our own internal data, tell us this move is absolutely the way to go.

The content will remain essentially the same; only the timing is different. Every Sunday evening, we'll publish an Essay to gently lead you into the coming week, as well as an Addendum with some interesting links for you to explore.

The Weekly Digest will continue to go out on Saturday morning at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. But where the Digest is a somewhat cheeky and (hopefully) entertaining review of the previous week, the Wire will be more of a relaxing contemplation of ... well, just about anything.

One thing we'd like to emphasize: as much as the Institute is focused on civic matters and our political discourse — it is, after all, our job — there is more to life than that. Politics, in the famous words of Otto von Bismarck, is the art of the possible, and no decent society can exist without a healthy, functioning political system.

But culture is what transforms a political system into a framework for civilization. Our appreciation for the arts, or the natural beauty around us, or for our common experience of the human condition, are what make life in a society worth living for the individual.

So, that is what the Sunday Wire will be about: the path from politics to culture to civilization.

We've changed a couple other things while we were at it. We've enabled the email function for everything we publish in the Leader, so in addition to the Sunday Wire, all subscribers will also get one full-length article during the week, plus the occasional post to the Institute blog, The Signal.

We've also enabled comments on the Leader for the first time. Only subscribers can comment, but it's easy enough to do. If you're a subscriber, simply click on the "Sign in" button at the top of the site, enter your email address and go from there.

If you haven't subscribed yet, just hit the Subscribe button and enter your name and email and you're in. It's free. So is the Weekly Digest, by the way — just go to the Institute website and scroll down to Newsletters on the bottom and sign up.

(Institute members are automatically subscribed to everything, of course. And only members in good standing can participate in our exclusive Roundtables.)

We're sure you'll enjoy this iteration of the Sunday Wire, and we're equally sure you'll find the same hope in the stories of shared humanity as we do. The man we quoted at the top of this Special Edition, Hans Rosling, built a career on the truths which are sometimes obscured by the whirlwind around us.

In these pages, we hope to do the same, and offer some clarity, insight, and most of all, tranquility along the way. We're happy to have you join us.

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Kevin J. Rogers is the executive director of the Modern Whig Institute. He can be reached at director@modernwhiginstitute.org.