But you should allow it to almost lapse, because TNR will send you a notice that reads the following:

Unless I hear from you immediately, the game is over. The train leaves the station. Without you...

Without the lucid, critical insights of The New Republic, there's nothing between you and the dullness of common minds, conventional journalism, and the triumph of hype, spin, and sound bites.

I'm on my way to the mailbox... (but if I wait a little longer, will TNR send me an even more memorable letter?)