Can You Spare a Dime? OK, a Twenty.

Dear National Review Friend,

Our Webathon ends Midnight on Sunday. We're hopeful our dedicated readers, especially those who come back again and again to NRO - where everything, and there is a lot of "everything," is free, and sharp, and smart - will help us defray the costs of publishing the wisdom and unmatched writing of Williamson, Hanson, Cooke, French, Goldberg, Nordlinger, Charen, Lopez, McCarthy, Ponnuru, Johnson, (I am going to get in trouble for leaving our too many names) and so many more.

Can you spot us a twenty? Maybe even 50 or a hundred? We're trying to raise a final $10,000 this weekend (that will help us pay for two NR summer interns), and we urge you to help. Whether it be the Widow's Mite of the billionaire's chump change, whatever you give is deeply appreciated. And sorely needed.

My friend and colleague, Rich Lowry, the capo di tutti capi in these parts, the man into whose hands Bill Buckley placed NR's editorial mission and majesty some 18 years ago, made a beautiful appeal - a "Mash Note" - for your support this week. A selection:

Which brings us to another amazing thing about our readers: So many of them dig down to pitch in pitch in to support our enterprise, even though they can come here and read for free and even though subscribers to the print edition are already paying for one of our products.

This faithful generosity is truly something to behold - it has to qualify as one of the most extraordinary phenomena in publishing history.

Whenever I tell outsiders who don't know anything about us that this is a part of our model and has been for 50 years, they are astonished and mystified. The reason I think our readers, or to put it more precisely, you, are so extraordinarily generous to us is that you have a sense that together we are holding in trust a national treasure.

After all this time, there is still nothing quite like NR: the quality of the writing and the thought; the debate that can be invigorating and maddening; the high-spiritedness and wit; the reporting that is credible and hard-hitting; the pipeline of new talent.

But we keep it going only with your help. Please consider chipping in to keep our mutual enterprise thriving. I don't need to tell you the stakes in the relentless, grinding cultural war being waged by the Left, or, more prosaically, in the 2016 election.

If you've always meant to give, but haven't, kindly do so now. Right here. Thanks much. Especially those of you who have already chipped in.

God bless,

Jack Fowler
Publisher

www.NationalReview.com

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