[788] in libertarians
_Liberty_, _WSJ_, libertarian sources and journals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hhuang@MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 28 16:38:45 1995
From: hhuang@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 16:35:41 -0500
To: tjic@ICD.Teradyne.COM
Cc: libertarians@MIT.EDU
Travis Corcoran (tjic@ICD.Teradyne.COM) writes,
>If you subscribe to no libertarian magazines or libertarian-leaning
>news magazines, I'd suggest that a subscription to Reason gives the
>most bang for the buck.
>
>Reason has the tone of Insight magazine, or perhaps a higher quality
>USN&WR.
>
>Liberty is a bit more academic and theoretical, and less
>news-oriented.
>
>I subscribe to both, and like both.
I subscribe to _The Wall Street Journal_, which I strongly
recommend as a news source. It is superior to network news and
Boston's newspapers and is comparable to _The New York Times_. The
student rate is cheap, around $87 for a year's subscription. It's
amazing how much more news is packed into the front page of the _WSJ_
than other papers. But what I like most about the _WSJ_ is the op/ed
section, which is a lot more libertarian than the op/ed pages of, say,
_The New York Times_.
I also subscribe to Extropian journals (in very brief,
Extropianism is a technofuturist atheist libertarian philosophy) which
are theoretical and not at all news-oriented.
I was wondering if I had room for a "middling" libertarian
journal -- one that reports on interesting news, but also provides
intelligent analysis -- and indeed I was deciding between _Liberty_
and _Reason_. I think I'll spring for _Liberty_, but I'm open to
suggestions.
-Han Y. Huang hhuang@mit.edu
