July 22, 2019
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
What is THE AGONIST,
and Why Should You Support It?
Friends,
Over the
past several years I have passed on a limited number of recommendations
involving financial matters to readers: one was to support North Carolina
Representative Larry Pittman, who has led the fight in the North Carolina
General Assembly to defend and protect our historic monuments, flags, and
symbols of our heritage. He needs our
continuing assistance.
Just
recently I have strongly recommended purchasing a superlative DVD copy of Walt
Disney’s classic film, “Song of the South,” [https://songofthesouth.org/].
Currently, the Disney Company refuses to make this movie officially available,
but there are sources for it, and SongoftheSouth.org is one
of the best for all round quality.
Today I
make another recommendation, and it is to support the work of a new online quarterly,
The Agonist journal.
The Agonist journal began with a
Winter 2019 issue, and since then there have been Spring and Summer issues. I
have been privileged to contribute articles to both the Winter and Spring 2019
issues, and I look forward to offering future contributions.
The Agonist is a serious effort to
counterbalance the unparalleled ignorance and unhinged revolutionary insanity
that is seriously infecting and destroying this country. Articles and essays
are thoughtful and well-presented, significant contributions to our national
discussions on critical issues.
The
journal needs our support; and so I pass on a letter from its editor-in-chief.
THE AGONIST Journal
Needs Your Support
Dear contributors, readers, friends, and others:
Some of you have written for The Agonist journal; some of you have work forthcoming at it; some
of you are readers; some of you are friends. In any case, we hope you think we
have published high quality essays, book reviews, poetry, and short fiction so
far.
A labor of love, this quarterly web journal operates at a
loss. We did not create it to make a profit, and don't expect it to, either. We
undertook this project because we wanted writers to have a medium where they
could publish without being constrained by political correctness and other
prejudices. To be sure, pretty much every publication purports to take chances
and to advocate something called free thought, but very few actually do.
We also wanted to give writers a space for serious cultural
commentary, for essays that don't try to chase headlines or the current news
cycle, and that are not meant to be consumed in three minutes' time, but to
serve a more rewarding (if more difficult) purpose. Finally, we wanted to help
preserve intellectual and aesthetic standards in a time when they are
increasingly threatened by "equality," “diversity,” and other notions
of "progress."
We are very happy to have added Anthony Esolen, Paul
Gottfried, Scott Beauchamp, Peter Paik, and Robert Calco to the masthead. We
are very happy that each of our three issues has had essays picked up by
RealClear Policy. We are very happy that, in a short period of time, we have
been able to publish so many fine writers and poets. Yet we are doing this on a
shoe string budget. We are not published by a "non-profit" or a think
tank. We are not pushing political candidates or a political agenda. An
independent, heterogeneous, and uncompromising publication, we do not fit into
the usual categories, and we think that's a good thing in this difficult and
uncertain and increasingly conformist time. But to continue, and to succeed, we
need more funding.
We need that funding to pay writers and to cover other
production costs—again, we aren't doing this to profit. There’s no money in
poetry, it has been said, and there’s no poetry in money, either. Unlike many
literary journals, we don't charge a reading fee. Neither do we want to charge
people to subscribe, or want to put ads on the website. We want to put our
works on the web where anybody in the world can read them whenever they want at
no cost. With sufficient public support, we will be able to do so.
Please therefore consider supporting our project, and if you
know anybody who might do so, send him or her a link to our donations
page: http://theagonist.org/pages/donate.html
By our next issue we will be able to take donations by
credit card and debit card at our website. For now, we can take them by check,
PayPal, and Patreon.
Here
is a link to our Patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/TheAgonistPayPal donations can be sent to c.e.grotius@gmail.com.
Donations by check can be sent to the publisher/editor:
Christopher DeGroot
P.O. Box 30512
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
Thank you and all the best!
The Editors
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