We've got projects. We need your help.  Dear Friend, As the old poem sorta goes, 30 Days Hath Bucktember – and this is the first day of a special month of appealing to you to help NRO bring off some important projects. Be assured: We will make these appeals over the next few weeks worth your while. Every email soliciting your generosity will come equipped with a link to a wonderful old National Review piece written by Bill Buckley himself. Today's essay, from 1960, is titled The Ordeal of Kenneth Tynan. Enjoy it. And each entreaty will also include a swell picture of our founder, like the one here of Bill laughing with the great Morrie Ryskind, the famous writer for the Marx Brothers (he crafted the screenplay for A Night at the Opera and many other movies) and a frequent contributor to National Review (indeed, he logged two pieces in NR's premier 1955 issue!). Now, as for the business at hand: The 2017 Fall webathon seeks to raise $200,000 (more if we can, if you can) to support four basic efforts. They are: • Hiring a tech guru for NRO's burgeoning podcast operation, • Obtaining related video software (an expenditure we are confident will result in significant new income), • Hiring a revenue officer (another major expenditure, but with an anticipated result of mulitples in revenue), and • Expanding our summer intern project. For a more detailed explanation, see this piece on the NRO home page. Know that these efforts, and other things we hope to undertake, are being done with the calculated intentions of • Bringing NR's forceful and consequential brand of conservatism to many more people, and • Putting NR in much better financial shape so that in the future there… Might never be the need to hold webathons! Bill Buckley first felt compelled to ask – scratch that: he had to ask – NR's subscribers and friends to keep the magazine afloat back in 1959. With less money coming in than what was going out (such is the fate of opinion journalism), his rationale was simple: It was worth keeping afloat. It was. And it remains so. That's a fact. And so is this: NR is a cause, one that involves us, naturally, but one that also involves you. It's the cause of articulating and propagating conservatism, and the cause of battling the multicultural blankety-blanks. We believe we can accomplish that far better with the efforts we wish to undertake. With your generous help. So please donate to the Fall 2017 webathon on the first of the 30 days of Bucktember. You can do that here. If you prefer to contribute via PayPal, do that here. If you are Old School and want to donate via check, make it payable to "National Review" and mail it to our new address: 19 West 44th Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10036. God bless and many thanks, The National Review Team | 
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