Reason’s annual Webathon
kicks off today and will run through next Tuesday, December 9.
This is the one time of the year when we go PBS on our most loyal
readers at Reason.com and ask them to consider making a tax-deductible
donation in support of our award-winning
journalism.
This year—the year The New York
Times asked “Has
the Libertarian Moment Finally Arrived?“—we’re hoping
to raise $200,000 from readers who dig what we do at the
country’s (and planet’s!) only website devoted to exploring,
analyzing, and promoting “Free Minds and Free Markets.”
Your (tax-deductible!) gift will help us publish the print
edition of Reason (“a kick-ass,
no-holds-barred political magazine,” according to The
New York Post); grow the reach of Reason.com (now
pulling over 4 million visits a month!), and produce more great
Reason TV videos (like this
one and this
one).
We’re your voice for
individual liberty and freedom in discussions about politics,
culture, and ideas—and with your help, that voice will continue to
command more and more of the national conversation. Reason.com’s
audience has doubled in size over the past few years and Reason
TV’s has grown even faster than that. Matt Welch is co-host of Fox
Business’ The
Independents, where he and Kennedy and Kmele Foster
are bringing a hard-core libertarian perspective to cable news.
Jacob Sullum writes about drug policy at
Forbes.com and I’m preaching the Reason message of
horrible horrible freedom in all areas of human activity at
The
Daily Beast and Time.
Damon Root is redefining the ideological discussion over
the Supreme Court in his hot-off-the-presses new book
Overruled and Jesse Walker’s
The United States of Paranoia (2013) is
still winning plaudits. As a New America Foundation fellow,
Katherine Mangu-Ward is representing school choice and educational
innovation in a space dominated by teachers-union-friendly
traditionalists. Recent hires such as Elizabeth
Nolan Brown and Robby Soave are
building massive audiences by writing about feminism and higher
education from a libertarian POV.
So, “Has the Libertarian Moment Finally Arrived?” Well,
no, not completely. But when you look at the rise of the marijuana
legalization movement, the push for marriage equality, the
long-overdue debate over the militarization of police, and the
growing recognition that U.S. foreign policy needs a total
reboot—all topics that Reason has been harping on for
decades—there’s no question that Reason-style libertarianism is on
the march. All but partisan dead-enders on the right and the left
are recognizing that their gods have failed them. Folks want
something different, an intellectual and ideological framework that
allows them to engage the world in a spirit that is both serious
and fun, idealistic and practical, forward-looking yet informed by
the lessons of the past.
In print, online, in video—Reason seeks to be your guide to a
complicated world, your conversation pit for hashing out arguments
among like-minded people, and your home base as you travel through
life.
We need your help to reach our
goal of $200,000!
To show our thanks, Webathon donors at every level of
giving will pick up sweet giveaways. Depending on how large a
(tax-deductible!) gift you make, you’ll be able to send a year’s
worth of Reason magazine to a friend (or,
better yet, an enemy!), strut around town in a classic black Reason
t-shirt, enjoy a private lunch in D.C.
with Reason editors, and much more. For a full listing of
giving levels and associated swag, go
here.
Your gift is essential to our success. So
please, put your money where our
mouth is. For your convenience, we accept donations via
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also accept donations of appreciated stock.
Over the next week-plus, Matt Welch and I will be asking you to
cough up your hard-earned money to help us keep doing what we’re
doing on a bigger and bigger scale. And we’ll be talking about all
the ways big and small that we’re pushing for a world that is
relentlessly interesting, innovative, and respectful of individual
rights, capitalism, and peace. And we’ll be thanking you
for reading—and for your
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