We here at National Review have interests ranging from literary to culinary, death-defying to avian.

What each of us has in common is a passion to preserve a constitutional republic that has enumerated the right to property obtained through one’s sweat and ingenuity. With socialists on the rise, well away from the campuses we were assured would contain them and their covetous excesses, that shared vision of an individual’s rights is all the more important to exclaim and defend.

Your lucre, however much it may be resented, is yours to keep.

But if there’s some you can part with — we do hope you’ll consider donating as part of our Fourth of July webathon. We passed the $60,000 mark yesterday and would love to hit $76,000 by tonight.

The politics of envy is eternal; we can’t promise victory. What we can do is what we’ve done successfully for over 70 years: hold the line with good humor so that Americans of tomorrow can enjoy the many gifts that 250 years of American greatness have bestowed upon us.

Thank you.