Let me start with a pic from my “pirate edition” copy of Hosea Ballou’s Treatise on Atonement. Why this 202-year-old book? (From my library; have I never written substantively aboutit?) Because in was crowdfunded, by the subcription model.
Variations of the model continue; indeed, I recently paid into a Kickstarter appeal that (cleverly) funds an internship for investigative reporting on internship abuse. (Do I see anthor Unitarian Universalist minister’s name in that list?) So it can do some good. But how? And is it the best way?
