Magazines rise and fall and many seem to linger in a state of limbo.
Some, such as The Atlantic, can be excellent and ridiculous in the same issue.
When I was a young student of Government (the University of Arizona refused, in those enlightened days, to call it Political Science), I read The Nation, The New Republic, Time, National Review, Newsweek, The American Spectator, and U.S. News & World Report in order to get an array of viewpoints and soon added Commentary magazine to the mix after seeing a recommendation by Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Esquire magazine was eagerly awaited back in the pre-woke days when it had writers such as Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe.
Nowadays, when newspapers are more inclined to confirm biases than to report the news, it helps to scour an even wider range of opinions, and some journals are rather eclectic.
Some current members of my stack include: The Arizona Republic (my local paper), City Journal, Commentary, Compact, Fortune, Quillette, The Free Press, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Criterion, The Spectator, The Tablet, UnHerd, The Wall Street Journal, and Washington Examiner.
The quest continues.
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