What Price Freedom?
EDITORIAL
We recently received a note from NOR reader William Nolte, an adjunct professor of politics at The Catholic University of America. Prof. Nolte wrote:
Not that you asked, but please raise your subscription rates now. Otherwise, you risk burning through the income from your current fundraising effort, only to have to announce an even higher rate in 2027 or 2028. Regards and best wishes to you, your staff, and the NOR.
As announced in our editorial “Holding the Line” (Oct. 2024), we are trying to raise $250,000 in order to postpone increasing subscription rates for the next two years. The good news is that as of this writing, we’ve raised $217,559. That’s 87 percent of our goal. We are grateful to all our readers who’ve helped us get this far. We’re almost across the finish line. Woohoo!
The bad news is that after getting off the blocks with sprinter’s speed, this fundraising campaign might not have the stamina to complete the race. That’s because after the initial surge, donations have slowed considerably. By December we’d raised $154,386. From then until now we’ve raised $63,175. That latter figure is nothing to scoff at, but in all honesty, we must recognize that it represents roughly a 60 percent decline from the first three months to the second three months. Presuming this rate of decline continues, we won’t reach our goal by summer’s end, if at all.
But that remains to be seen; we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. Nevertheless, we must prepare for the possibility that we won’t cross the finish line in time. Therefore, we’ve already worked up a possible new rate schedule.
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