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

Or Bust.

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.

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

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

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

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).

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

Score.

http://www.scoreland.com/

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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’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.

I can’t stand the telegraph though.

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).

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

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

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

The Paris Review?

The Oxford American?

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

I do like big boobs, yes.

And now the whole office knows about it.

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.

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.

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!

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.)

The New Scientist has run personals before, though.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Bitch

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.