THANK YOU to subscribing contributors ACS and ERW, whose monthly payments totaling $7.50 yesterday bring our year-end fundraiser total (as of 6am Tuesday) to $147.50!
We’re now $2,603 away from the $5,501 finish line (no, my math isn’t bad — reader GL is “matching funds” for half of our goal).
Here’s some more math for you: We’re a reader-supported publication, and you’re a reader.
https://news.rationalreview.com/support-rrnd
Over nearly 23 years of publishing Rational Review News Digest (and more than 30 years under other branding as Freedom News Daily and, before that, Libernet), we’ve never paywalled the libertarian movement’s longest-running daily news and commentary roundup and don’t plan to start. But toward the end of each year, we set a modest goal and ask our readers to return value to us for the value they find in our publication. Here’s where that happens:
https://news.rationalreview.com/support-rrnd
Our longevity kind of speaks for itself, but having recently been asked “how long do you plan to keep doing this?” I’ll share my policy on that: Our annual “year-end fundraiser” generally represents a commitment to publish for AT LEAST one more year. We’re not vaporware that disappears after you buy it. Unless I die (I don’t plan to) or something equally dire, we’re here until AT LEAST the end of 2026.
BUT! We gotta eat. And if it makes any difference to your motivations (I’m not big on appealing to charity, but I do like making happy announcements), yesterday my wife’s offer on our first house after 13 years of renting was accepted. Pending inspection passage, we’ll be spending more on housing Real Soon Now. Just sayin’ …
https://news.rationalreview.com/support-rrnd
Finally, the usual promise: Once we reach our goal, I won’t mention money to you for the rest of the year, and only seldom after that until NEXT October. So the quicker we wrap this up, the quicker I shut up!
https://news.rationalreview.com/support-rrnd
Thanks for all you’ve done, are doing, and are hopefully about to do! Have a great day!
Yours in liberty,
Tom Knapp
Publisher
Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily