| Dear Friend,  Maybe we should call them the "Intolligencia." They're the leftist-loving administrators and extreme "progressive" academics who run amok through and roughshod over America's college campuses, the very places where debate and consideration of issues need to be open and wide-ranging. After two generations of relentless liberal occupation, they're now the very places where conservative principles and professors (few!) are bullied and silenced, where conservative thought is marginalized and shunned, where tenure eludes those who believe in America's traditional standards of liberty and freedom. From Yale to Evergreen State, from Middlebury to Marquette, from Williams to Brown, hundreds of American institutions of higher learning teem with unchecked, aggressive faculty and students obsessed with limiting how people talk and think. These once-havens of free speech have now become bastions of vindictive intolerance and suppression of alternative voices. Had enough? Do you want to do something about it? Yeah. And, yes. It's time to fight back. This year, National Review Institute is launching the Center for Unalienable Rights, to be headed by Senior Fellow David French, who in addition to being one of the most popular writers on National Review Online, is widely considered one of America's premier champions of free speech. As a member of the SCOTUS bar, David is a highly regarded litigator who is the former president of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, as well as other vital free-speech institutions. He is also the host of the new and instantly popular weekly NRO podcast, The Liberty Files. NRI seeks $100,000 to fund the new Center for Unalienable Rights and its operations (which includes, in part, David's fellowship). Will you help make this happen with a tax-deductible contribution? Please do so – securely and conveniently here. This effort will end on July 31st, so we urge you to act now. Please know that part of the Center's efforts will be to bring David and other free-speech advocates to American colleges and universities to make the critical case for the First Amendment, and to challenge liberal intolerance head on. At NRI, like you, we believe that the conservative movement was founded by William F. Buckley Jr. when he launched National Review magazine in 1955. But we also believe the seeds to Buckley's public efforts to battle leftist indoctrination are found in his classic 1951 book, God and Man at Yale. Our movement needs to return to these roots – to this campus-based battle against liberal programming and propaganda – and we at NRI will centralize this paramount fight through the Center, with David's exceptional knowledge and guidance leading those efforts. Please join us in the fight for free speech and against those who seek to turn America's campuses into permanent intolerant bastions of leftism. Donate today to NRI's new Center for Unalienable Rights. Please remember that your contribution is not only deeply appreciated and sorely needed – it's also tax-deductible. Best, Jack Fowler
Trustee, National Review Institute
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