Who subscribes to journals & magazines in print anymore?
Raises hand while sitting next to this quarter’s physical print editions stacked higher than I am comfortable sharing. :)
(weeklies & monthlies get scattered around home, cars & bags so that one is always in reach to be picked up on a whim when a moment of respite presents itself. Highly recommend this tactic…..especially if you have children around. Good for them to see you picking up physical books, mags, journals, etc instead of a kindle/phone in order to drive home reading through example.
2nd tip - purposefully emotionally respond as you’re reading, eg laughing or expressing inquisitiveness. Even when you’re not reading, & really watching your child. Or using the magazine to hide your expression to whatever has just happened in order to take a breath before addressing…especially when this.)
Perhaps there is a more fundamental reason people start new magazines.
A structure that already works tends to keep following paths that have already been validated. Existing paths make outcomes more predictable, while leaving them for the unknown introduces risk.
But this creates a tension: paths that worked in the past can reduce risk, but they cannot guarantee an answer to changes that have not yet appeared.
So established institutions often become better at preserving what already works, while new magazines and new intellectual spaces tend to emerge outside them—where the risks are higher, but where there is still room to explore new paths.
Why is there not a physical version of the Argument? To me, a magazine has to have a physical version or it’s not a magazine. Otherwise it’s just a website or blog.
I’m really glad you guys are here. I too think of you as a kind of National Review for liberalism, and I mean that in the best ways: publishing thoughtful, challenging pieces in order to make us fit for purpose to one day accomplish great things. And I also deeply appreciate your efforts to return us to a more capacious form of liberalism than the more narrow minded ones that have brought us to a dead end. Looking forward to a second year as a devoted subscriber.
*Baby, I'm an Anarchist* is such a banger. I didn't discover Against Me! until I was already 90% done turning into a spineless liberal, and I still fell in love with their stuff.
Total uncomplicated conviction makes for really compelling songs, too bad it doesn't make for good policy.
As someone more or less swamped in the ritual of libbing out, and monstrously dedicated to its evangelism: what do you make of the accusation that what liberalism most needs is a *vivid, affirmative vision for society*? That the way we win is through painting a picture of what our belief system makes possible?
If I (in Europe) understand the version of liberalism you support, should you not soon interview (or discuss) Adrian Wooldridge's The Revolutionary Centre?
Who subscribes to journals & magazines in print anymore?
Raises hand while sitting next to this quarter’s physical print editions stacked higher than I am comfortable sharing. :)
(weeklies & monthlies get scattered around home, cars & bags so that one is always in reach to be picked up on a whim when a moment of respite presents itself. Highly recommend this tactic…..especially if you have children around. Good for them to see you picking up physical books, mags, journals, etc instead of a kindle/phone in order to drive home reading through example.
2nd tip - purposefully emotionally respond as you’re reading, eg laughing or expressing inquisitiveness. Even when you’re not reading, & really watching your child. Or using the magazine to hide your expression to whatever has just happened in order to take a breath before addressing…especially when this.)
Perhaps there is a more fundamental reason people start new magazines.
A structure that already works tends to keep following paths that have already been validated. Existing paths make outcomes more predictable, while leaving them for the unknown introduces risk.
But this creates a tension: paths that worked in the past can reduce risk, but they cannot guarantee an answer to changes that have not yet appeared.
So established institutions often become better at preserving what already works, while new magazines and new intellectual spaces tend to emerge outside them—where the risks are higher, but where there is still room to explore new paths.
Why is there not a physical version of the Argument? To me, a magazine has to have a physical version or it’s not a magazine. Otherwise it’s just a website or blog.
Stay tuned...
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I’m really glad you guys are here. I too think of you as a kind of National Review for liberalism, and I mean that in the best ways: publishing thoughtful, challenging pieces in order to make us fit for purpose to one day accomplish great things. And I also deeply appreciate your efforts to return us to a more capacious form of liberalism than the more narrow minded ones that have brought us to a dead end. Looking forward to a second year as a devoted subscriber.
*Baby, I'm an Anarchist* is such a banger. I didn't discover Against Me! until I was already 90% done turning into a spineless liberal, and I still fell in love with their stuff.
Total uncomplicated conviction makes for really compelling songs, too bad it doesn't make for good policy.
As someone more or less swamped in the ritual of libbing out, and monstrously dedicated to its evangelism: what do you make of the accusation that what liberalism most needs is a *vivid, affirmative vision for society*? That the way we win is through painting a picture of what our belief system makes possible?
Jerusalem,
If I (in Europe) understand the version of liberalism you support, should you not soon interview (or discuss) Adrian Wooldridge's The Revolutionary Centre?
Cathal Guiomard
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Revolutionary-Center/Adrian-Wooldridge/9781639369379