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Re: What magazines do you read?

Samuel Smith — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:00:36 GMT

Most of the time, nothing. I do, infrequently, get the urge to read a magazine... but I walk into the store, read the headlines and just rage. Not going to putting down my hard-earned moneys for that kind of torture.

HOWEVER, when I fly, I often buy a copy of Forbes. Although the magazine is somewhat statist... Steve Forbes isn't that bad of a guy (often appearing along side Tom Woods... and they're not completely at ends), so I don't mind tolerating his magazine. Plus, 500 lists are always interesting, and their "investor advice" column is always a laugh... did you know that house prices have bottomed out , and due to upswing any time now? They really mean "any time"... because they've been saying it for atleast two years.

Re: What magazines do you read?

Friedrich Dominicus — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:30:23 GMT

"Why is it that there are so many liberal/progressive magazines and so little libertarian magazines?"

I guess you are talking about liberal in the amercan sense. I could hardly name one "liberal" magazin in the "von Mises liberal sense".

Re: What magazines do you read?

SkepticalMetal — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:58:39 GMT

I've been thinking about seeing what it takes to start up a magazine. I've had this idea for a "Rolling Stone/Playboy for Libertarians" running around in my mind.

Re: What magazines do you read?

fountainhead — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:56:57 GMT

@SkepticalMetal

Because there are so many liberals and so few libertarians. :( Gotta cater to your audience.

Re: What magazines do you read?

SkepticalMetal — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:42:48 GMT

Why is it that there are so many liberal/progressive magazines and so little libertarian magazines?

Re: What magazines do you read?

Jon Irenicus — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:04:36 GMT

None right now but I might go for online versions of IBD. I don't really read magazines much.

Re: What magazines do you read?

Michelangelo — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:35:18 GMT

The Onion.

Re: What magazines do you read?

FascistSoup — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:51:50 GMT

Playboy & Nuts.

Re: What magazines do you read?

SkepticalMetal — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:39:19 GMT

I like to read Locksmith's Weekly.

Re: What magazines do you read?

Buzz Killington — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:32:52 GMT

Alternative Right.

Re: What magazines do you read?

Neodoxy — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:15:50 GMT

Oh yeah I forgot, whenever I can get my hands on an issue: Top Gear.

Hell yea.

Re: What magazines do you read?

Friedrich Dominicus — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:48:08 GMT

Well I used to read a lot of newspapers/magazines

Among them FAZ, Handelsblatt, NZZ, Spiegel, eigentümlich frei. Anyway I stopped with those some days ago. The best of them still was/is eigentümlich frei. It's close to liberal but with some heavy bias towards christianity. I'm a bit beyond that and have my serious doubts about it.

The problem with German newspapers is that it seems there are not many opintions left. Wel here and there a comment differs a bit, but the base is Government is good and Fiat-money is the best since sliced bread. We have a new religion here in Germany we pray for and to mother nature. The greens are the foreprayers of it. And so I learn in any newspaper, men is evil and the climat is waming or so.

Anyway I still read a few magazines.

Motorrad (irregular), Tourenfahrer, c't, iX, a magazine about the waste industry, schweizer Monat. Well that are special magazines outside the realm of politics

Unfortunatly in whole Germany there is IMHO not one newspaper that one could recommend. So what is left is going to here and/or the mises.de, or some Blogs to get at least something which can be a different political opinion.

I don't knwo if a liberal newspaper may have any chance here in Germany. I guess if it's true that support for Obama exceeds 90 % of the Germans population, the sad answer is. We have not many liberal/libertarians left. Well I guess that's nothing new in Germany, but may be a new experience in the US...

Re: What magazines do you read?

SkepticalMetal — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:02:43 GMT

@ Neodoxy

I know. It's just that some of the most interesting threads happen to be some of the oldest. What I really have in mind whenever I post questions is that others will take notice of the thread and respond.

Re: What magazines do you read?

Neodoxy — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:01:48 GMT

I really like the economist. It covers a lot of topics in an in-depth, and indeed economic manner.

Also, SM, it's not very helpful to ask questions of the posters of a two year dead thread

Re: What magazines do you read?

fountainhead — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:01:17 GMT

FYI, I started a thread similar to this on newspapers.

Incidentally, The Economist considers itself a "newspaper" and not a magazine. A weekly newspaper printed on glossy paper and folded like a book, I guess. I used to read it all the time, but I slowed down a bit when I too noticed they've turned more leftist and statist lately despite proclaiming their love of "capitalism."

I'm curious, why do some of you not like Reason? Too watered down? I haven't read much from them so I don't know.