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Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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bobthepanda wrote: post #43
yuy910616 wrote: post #18

I've been reading the Economist for about 10 years. It provides great coverage on big issues, and recently, some fun ones (billie eilish comes to mind). It's unique in that it feels "slower", more deliberate, and thoughtful than most newspaper/tv channels. It gives context and covers multiple viewpoints before giving an opinion. Its daily espresso newsletter and quarterly tech issues are always interesting too. I've…

The Economist is great, but it definitely wears its biases on its sleeve; it hasn’t quite found a problem the free market can’t solve.

I tend to disagree. While a pro market magazine, it often suggests strong government actions. I think you have never dealt with real fee market fetishists.

The only annoying things is the double Christmas issue and the "New Year outlook". They always write the same. The world has never been better and everything becomes better and next year will be better than the last.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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firebombzero wrote: post #80
aitait wrote: post #79

Seconding The Economist. A league on its own. :-) I never subscribed, but like/liked to read (e.g. at B&N) THE NEW YORKER 2600 FOREIGN POLICY HARPER'S THE ATLANTIC Even the Rolling Stone can have good articles. E.g.: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-amer...

The Economist if you want to get all the wrong information about the world.

I doubt there is a magazine in the world that can compete in deep, knowledge and network (And I can read magazines in at least 3 major languages, possibly four).

Would you mind to elaborate where the Economist delivers "wrong" information? Preferably give some specific examples.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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sentrysapper wrote: post #69

Started reading more in print magazines to help pass the lockdown time. In general, I'd recommend Monocle to just about anyone. The articles and photography are top notch: https://monocle.com/magazine/ For Canadians living in or entranced by the Maritimes: https://maritimeedit.com/

Not trying to troll here. But Monocle? I always wondered who reads this? Poor people who want to know how rich people live? (Trust me, no rich person I know of would buy this poser magazine).

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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saperyton wrote: post #12

Not a magazine, but the Thinking About Things newsletter is always interesting. https://www.thinking-about-things.com

Seconded, with a footnote that its articles regularly appear on HN.

There is also now I know, a daily light digestible easy read that bring a lot of interesting lesser known stories.

https://nowiknow.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by gallegojaime »

vsskanth wrote: post #73
gallegojaime wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Related to the Economist's areas of writing: what do people think of Harvard Business Review? Does it have valuable content?

You can subscribe to their newsletter. I was subscribed but eventually got bored as their content was too generic and not actionable

I had my suspicions about their content being too idealistic, being directed to that 'flavor of the month' manager audience. But it's a sin that doesn't really go away with the Economist, either.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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bamurphymac1 wrote: post #13
omosubi wrote: post #5

Lapham's Quarterly - each issue (4x a year) looks at a different topic with a focus on history and showing various perspectives across times and cultures. each issue has writing from the ancients through this year. Cabinet - I used to subscribe to this one but my subscription lapsed. it is kind of a hipster magazine and some of the stuff in there is obtuse garbage but every once in a while they hit it. this is a good…

Just finished the piece on pallets. What a fantastic story, a slice of the world i’d never considered.

Which one?

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by jimmySixDOF »

rbanffy wrote: post #74

Mine are IEEE's "Computer" and "Software". Their "Annals of the History of Computing" is also a great read. Horrendously expensive, unfortunately. IEEE also has the IBM journals behind a paywall. I real shame. ACM's "Communications of the ACM" is also very good.

IEEE Spectrum is their main flagship publication across all interest areas and is one of the best mags still in print.

Also whatever happened to Byte - that was a good read way back when.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/

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