American Restoration Newsletter #1

Restarting the numbering for a new platform

Please forward to anyone who should have it...and no one who shouldn't.

I’m going to open this edition with an apology to anyone who receives a duplicate.  I’m gravitating my American Restoration Newsletter from Mailchimp to Substack, and I’ll probably have to run a couple of editions on both platforms.  If you’ve received this edition only as a regular e-mail and you want to make sure not to miss a single scintillating issue, please follow this link to subscribe to my Substack, also titled American Restoration.

In addition to being a nicer and hotter platform, Substack also lets me introduce multiple subscription tiers, including a paid tier.  I believe the theory is supposed to be that famous journalists can hide their really good material behind a paywall.  That’s not a game I choose to play.  My dual purposes in writing are to educate and entertain.  The more readers for whom I can do either, the happier I am.  

It is not, however, beyond me to pass the hat.  (Those who know me IRL m…