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Revision as of 23:13, 17 August 2018
| Former editors | Suzanne La Follette, Sol Levitas, James Oneal (founding editor) |
|---|---|
| Categories | Politics and culture |
| Frequency | bi-weekly |
| First issue | 1924 |
| Final issue | 2006 (print) 2010 (digital) |
| Company | American Labor Conference on International Affairs |
| Country | USA |
| Based in | New York, New York |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0028-6044 |
The New Leader (1924–2006) was a political and cultural magazine.
History
The New Leader began in 1924 under a group of figures associated with the Socialist Party of America. These included Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas. It was published in New York City by the American Labor Conference on International Affairs. Its orientation was liberal and anti-communist. The Tamiment Institute was the magazine's primary supporter.
Its overall politics shifted in its second decade:
Under Levitas's editorship, during years when the much-higher-circulation Nation and New Republic often ran acrobatic apologies for Stalin, the New Leader became a bi-weekly platform for what was then known as liberal anti-Communism.[1]
Editors
The founding editor in 1924 was James Oneal, succeeded by Sol Levitas in 1940. Suzanne La Follette was a managing editor in the 1950s. Myron (Mike) Kolatch took over in 1961 until the magazine's closure in 2006.
Contributors
Its contributors were dominant liberal thinkers and artists. The New Leader first published Joseph Brodsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the United States. It first published Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Other contributors, who were generally paid nothing or only a modest fee, included James Baldwin, Daniel Bell, Willy Brandt, David Dallin, Milovan Djilas, Theodore Draper, Max Eastman, Ralph Ellison, Hubert Humphrey, George F. Kennan, Murray Kempton, Irving Kristol, Richard J. Margolis, C. Wright Mills, Hans Morgenthau, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Albert Murray, Ralph de Toledano, Reinhold Niebuhr, George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, Cyril Joad, Bayard Rustin, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and Tony Sender[2][3]
Closure
The New Leader ceased print publication following the January/April 2006 double issue.
A bimonthly online version was published from January/February 2007 to May/June/July/August 2010.
Longtime Editor Myron Kolatch conducted an interview with Columbia University's The Current in Spring 2007 [1]. He mainly discussed the history of journals of ideas (The New Leader, Partisan Review, The New Republic, National Review), and their role in politics and intellectual discourse. Also worth reading is Kolatch's "Who We Are and Where We Came From" [2], adapted from the last in-print issue.
See also
Notes
- ^ Yehudah, Mirsky (August 24, 2010). "Requiem for a Big Little Magazine". Jewish Ideas Daily. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
- ^ * McGrath, Charles (January 23, 2006). "A Liberal Beacon Burns Out". New York Times. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
- ^ Robert F. Wheeler (1972)"The Tony Sender Papers" Newsletter: European Labor and Working Class History No. 1 (May, 1972), pp. 5-7
External links
- Official website
- Columbia University New Leader archive Finding Aid
- Columbia University New Leader archive "Biographical Note"
- Epstein, Joseph " New Leader Days: Can you have a political magazine without politics?" The Weekly Standard September 18, 2006.
- Richard Bernstein "65th Birthday Party for a Voice of Liberal Opinion" New York Times.
- American political magazines
- Biweekly magazines
- Defunct magazines of the United States
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- Magazines established in 1924
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- Online magazines with defunct print editions
- Socialist Party of America
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