andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> going several steps to the right of Henry Kissinger
> on that one. Sigh. One more reason I may switch my sub from The Nation
> to, what did you say, Lou, Harpers?
Since I dropped my Nation subscription in '98 my experience has been that almost everything that I'm missing gets posted to e-lists anyhow. I received a gift subscription to _Harpers_, and it contains something readable almost every issue.
Nothing can quite replace the function the Nation served most of the time since WW2 -- a reasonably principled voice of sharp left-liberalism. It used to be a source of useful information. It hardly seems to anymore.
Carrol
P.S. An after thought: Could the development of the web & e-lists as sources of left information have made it unnecessary for some journals to continue to appeal to (or at leas hold the minimal respect of) leftists because they can't keep that audience anyhow? I subscribed to _The Reporter_ from almost its first year to early in the Vietnam War. Apparently when I unsubbed many others did also, because it went out of business. The Nation can apparently continue to "thrive" (in the way such marginal journals do) without its left readership.
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