To our cherished readers and subscribers,
If you currently have a subscription, you need to re-subscribe now. If you've never held a subscription, please consider it. TNI's continued existence depends now more than ever on you.
The New Inquiry is entirely reader supported. For us that was the only route towards editorial independence. We publish work that through its critiques (whether of Israel, big data, liberalism, or capitalism) disqualifies us from many sources of funding. As a project critical of so much that many publications tolerate to maintain commercial viability, it's been more than encouraging that we continue to reach a higher number of subscribers every year. But our dependence on Amazon's payments infrastructure has meant that even as our subscriber base and readership have grown, every month we’ve been getting less and less money from our subscriptions. And now, Amazon has informed us that they're shutting off their payment system at the end of the month.
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