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A bimonthly online version was published from January/February 2007 to May/June/July/August 2010.
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 (Columbia University journal)|The Current]]'' in Spring 2007.<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20121017124912/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/spring2007/current-qa.html The Current: Spring 2007 Current Q & A: Myron Kolatch]</ref> 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", adapted from the last in-print issue.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070221125242/http://www.thenewleader.com/pdf/who-we-are.pdf WhoWe Are and WhereWe Came From]</ref>
Longtime Editor Myron Kolatch conducted an interview with Columbia University's ''[[The Current (Columbia University journal)|The Current]]'' in Spring 2007.<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20121017124912/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/spring2007/current-qa.html The Current: Spring 2007 Current Q & A: Myron Kolatch]</ref> 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", adapted from the last in-print issue.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070221125242/http://www.thenewleader.com/pdf/who-we-are.pdf Who We Are and Where We Came From], The New Leader.</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

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For the British socialist newspaper, see Labour Leader. For the DJ Starscream album, see The New Leader (album).
The New Leader
Former editorsSuzanne La Follette, Sol Levitas, James Oneal (founding editor)
CategoriesPolitics and culture
Frequencybi-weekly
First issue1924
Final issue2006 (print)
2010 (digital)
CompanyAmerican Labor Conference on International Affairs
CountryUSA
Based inNew York, New York
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.thenewleader.com
ISSN0028-6044

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.[4] 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", adapted from the last in-print issue.[5]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Yehudah, Mirsky (August 24, 2010). "Requiem for a Big Little Magazine". Jewish Ideas Daily. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  2. ^ * McGrath, Charles (January 23, 2006). "A Liberal Beacon Burns Out". New York Times. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  3. ^ Robert F. Wheeler (1972)"The Tony Sender Papers" Newsletter: European Labor and Working Class History No. 1 (May, 1972), pp. 5-7
  4. ^ The Current: Spring 2007 Current Q & A: Myron Kolatch
  5. ^ Who We Are and Where We Came From, The New Leader.

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