As I mentioned on a recent episode of The Editors, Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year, because it combines three of my favorite things — family, food, and tradition. In my family, we have a tradition of frying our turkeys, and recently I’ve adopted the tradition of making pecan pie in cake form, because I’m a pecan-pie fan but prefer cake to pie crust.
Of course, the holiday is also about giving thanks, and at the risk of sounding cheesy, I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of our subscribers and supporters for making it possible for us to regularly provide the best writing we can, rooted in a conservatism that is unwavering and truthful as well as intellectually honest.
As I write this, our supporters have stunned us with their generosity in our ongoing webathon. As I alluded to in a previous post, we had some trepidation going into the webathon about the sort of response it would generate, especially in this inflationary environment. In setting expectations, we tried to be, well, conservative. But our readers kept coming through for us and blowing away our expectations, and rallied to our side when a certain former president declared he wanted us to die (peacefully). The overwhelming response forced us to keep raising our goal until we crossed $100,000 and decided we could no longer predict the upper limit of your generosity.
If you have not yet contributed, and you were planning to, we are still keeping the webathon open over the holiday weekend. We have seen donations ranging from $5 to $5,000 and appreciate every last one.
But once again, we’d like to thank you for your tremendous support. We will work extra hard to be worthy of your generosity in the coming year, and wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving.
