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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The New Goon: On Periodicals
 
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Mr. Wiggles
Dec 1, 2003

We are all drinking from the highball glass of ideology.
I used to read the New Yorker and the Review all the time but I just don't have the minutes these days. I still get a a paper copy of The Atlantic delivered to my house, though, which I always make time for.

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Mr. Wiggles
Dec 1, 2003

We are all drinking from the highball glass of ideology.

GalacticAcid posted:

Living in Queens, the Review makes sense for me. I need something to read on the train to and from Manhattan every morning. Without that built-in reading time, I'm not sure I could handle it.

I'm curious why you selected The Atlantic above all the others. If I had to choose just one monthly, it would probably be Harper's. Not a criticism! Just curiosity.

Even though, I thought the Harper's hit piece on Hillary Clinton via Doug Henwood was terrible (and I usually like Henwood). For a legitimate in-depth critique of Hillary, I thought the Jackson Lears's essay in the LRB was much more thought-provoking.

But while we are on the topic of The Atlantic, I should probably link to two of the most widely discussed articles of the past year:

James Fallows on "The Tragedy of the American Military" and Ta-Nehisi Coates on "The Case for Reparations".

Those guys are a couple of the major reasons. The dispatch section is still good, and I like the poetry. Generally the magazine is a bit too limousine liberal for my taste politically, but as was mentioned, the occasional super fantastic article makes up for that.

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