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I'm going to ask for some magazine subsscriptions for Christmas -- what should I get? The New Yorker and The Atlantic came to mind, but other than that I've no idea. Is Wired any good? How about The New Republic?

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't like the Economist, for some reason.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Or Bust.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link

The New Republic is good if you want intellectually dishonest conservative calls for war, war, and more war. read tnr.com for a few days to see what to expect.

my favorite magazine is Harper's.

― hm (modestmickey), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry, ignore that link. this one: Harper's

― hm (modestmickey), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Cabinet is a fantastic arts/culture quarterly magazine. Gastronomica is a pretty great food magazine (more about food culture than food itself).

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 03:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Cabinet is a fantastic arts/culture quarterly magazine. Gastronomica is a pretty great food magazine (more about food culture than food itself).

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/
Cabinet is a fantastic arts/culture quarterly magazine.

http://www.gastronomica.org
Gastronomica is a pretty great food magazine (more about food culture than food itself).

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link

well then, I guess those links did work. ummm, sandbox developers, you get php errors when you try to use anchor tags....

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Score.

― Stupid, and is severely rationed, when I am: happy for sweet pickles, and t (goo, Wednesday, 20 December 2006 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.scoreland.com/

― Stupid, and is severely rationed, when I am: happy for sweet pickles, and t (goo, Wednesday, 20 December 2006 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link

You knew that was coming, of course, so I'm happy to provide.

― Stupid, and is severely rationed, when I am: happy for sweet pickles, and t (goo, Wednesday, 20 December 2006 03:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to like the New Republic in the 90s (the stephen glass era), but I realize that a lot can change in 10-15 years.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i think i'll get a subscription to New Scientist soon, myself

― v (sleep), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll second New Scientist and Gastronomica. I have to read the Economist in work, and although I disagree with their politics, it is a solidly informative magazine in an easy to read format. Plus they get so wound up about the French that it's kind of funny sometimes.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 07:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I really like the Economist, but I found that, when I had a subscription, I could never keep up. By far and away the best news weekly though and I still buy it when it has a good batch of stories or I have a long journey or whatever.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I rather like its politics, even if I don't agree with them, it is proudly, unashamedly Liberal with a huge capital 'L'.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Socially, yes. But economically it is quite conservative. And, of course, it thinks there is an economic solution to everything, and that once a country's economy is running well, then there is really little else to worry about, because of course everything else will just fall into place.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 09:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Liberal in the English sense of the word rather than the American one. Economically it is exceedingly Liberal, very pro- free-trade and free-market, very anti monopoly and state ownership/interference.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 09:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Ed's post supports my theory that its easier to like a publication you're not supposed to agree with. The same reason that reading the Telegraph annoys me less than reading the Guardian.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 09:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't stand the telegraph though.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 09:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I think that I can see the economist's position as being intellectually sustainable through logical argument, even if I don't agree with it, but not the Telgraph's subtext of hereditary right (my dad was a bigger murdering bastard/robber baron/money grubber than your dad).

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah yes, I see what you are saying. Sorry, too much Jon Stewart.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link

to be fair to the telegraph, that's not really their entire position...

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

No but it is the bit I object most to, it is less objectionable than the Mail/Express/Littlejohn.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

The Paris Review?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

The Oxford American?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I read the Economist, like it for reasons Ed points out, and whenever I feel like I might not be able to keep up the deliveryman conveniently forgets to throw it in front of the right doorstep on Friday or it's just flat-out stolen off my stopp before I leave the house.

Ally got me a subscription to New Scientist last year and I like it quite a bit even if I do consistently read it from the back to the front and eschew 50% of the cover stories.

Currently wondering if perhaps "British publications ending with -ist" is possibly a good metric for selecting periodicals after all

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I do like big boobs, yes.

And now the whole office knows about it.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

One of the great things about the Economists' ALL ADAM SMITH, ALL THE TIME stance is that they never wont for provocative commentary/cover material, like two weeks ago when they decided it was time to take investors to task over the high risk involved in green fuels projects, following a story about how Wall Street and the major american investment banks have all been fucked by Sarbanes Oxley - which all sounds really right wing until you read the article and realize they blame investors for being silly and banks for resting on their laurels, not the usual suspects at all. The Economist is actually all about corporate accountability in the sense that managers who make bad decisions should be universally recycled into fertilizer, and corruption is just as bad or worse than legislating the market.

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

They don't like anyone pissing in the fountain of capitalism that sustains us all.

They are very pragmatic on the environment and third world development in this regard. They are very keen that everyone should be able to buy and sell and increase the wealth and not be underwater whilst doing it.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

exactly. it's great because they've already decided the answer to the question of what a human life is worth: future earnings, discounted over time!

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Still though, their personals aren't a touch on the LRB's.

(I know the Economist doesn't have personals. It would be GRATE if it did.)

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

The New Scientist has run personals before, though.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Wednesday, 20 December 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm a fan of the Economist for all the reasons above...especially for the bite-sized World News Round-up. Great for reading on the plane, but yeah, keeping up weekly might be difficult.

i'm intrigued by New Scientist.

One of my favorites: The Alpinist

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Politically, I agree with the Economist nearly 100%. Maybe that's why I don't like it. It's a little pollyannaish, sometimes, and there's not a lot of personality in the writing. It's a good choice for an airplane/train trip, mostly because it's very dense and impresses fellow passengers.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I even like the New Statesman sometimes, although that could just be because it makes a nice change from The Journal of Interpersonal Violence, or Ageing and Society.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I've asked for a subscription to Granta for about the past 5 Christmases; I'm still waiting.

― Matilda Wormwood (Mary ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe it's because I'm in college but I associate the Economist with upper middle-class white poli-sci/I.R. majors who want to seem smarter than they actually are.

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

But I guess I subscribe to the New Yorker and Harper's, which reveals me as a UMC white English major who wants to seem smarter than he actually is.

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Bitch

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.thuglifearmy.com/images/News%20Pics/eiht-murder%20dog%20cover.jpg

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://getemmagazine.com/BunBweb2.jpg

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://ozonemag.com/albums/jul2006/47_Jul2006_8BallMJG.jpg

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

http://magsonthenetimages.com/image2.php?id=madmagazine

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

wtf about the economist lacking personality? it has so much personality that its crazy -- it is a sort of flip, know-it-all personality, but still, its like the maxim to like the wsj's gq or something.

― sterl clover (s_clover), Thursday, 21 December 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link

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