[quote=EconProf]Briansd1: Thank you for sharing your reading list with us.
It is 100% liberal.
No balance or challenges to your entrenched beliefs will threaten you in that list! Please try an issue or two of National Review, The Weekly Standard, or the Wall Street Journal editorial page (the rest of the WSJ is pretty balanced news coverage).
I am conservative, but also read The Economist and The New Republic and watch MSNBC to be exposed to the other side. The New Republic has reputation as left, but can be refreshingly open to ideas from the right. The Economist, on your list, can be exhausting to get through, but also voices views from the right on occasion. They were years ahead of everyone else in calling the housing bubble.[/quote]
EconProf: Actually, the Economist is Center-Right (I subscribe) and very even-handed in their approach to politics and Current Affairs. Their finance and economics reportage is excellent (IMHO) as well.
I actually enjoy The New Republic, especially the writings of Cohn and Chait. And, you’re correct, they are not only open to views right-ward, they’re also willing to admit when they’re wrong, which is something you generally don’t see from the hard Left, which treats the Leftist viewpoint as revealed truth and thus never subject to question.
As much validity as there is to charges about the Reactionary Right and their fulminations, an equal or greater charge should be leveled against the Left, especially those that espouse “absolute” viewpoints (the US is always wrong, corporations are soulless, rapacious profit-mongers, and anyone even mildly conservative in viewpoint is an un-educated, gun-toting, Jesus-loving idiot).
Spend time listening to Maddow, Olbermann and that vile propagandist Michael Moore (who is FAT, Brian!) and it becomes all too apparent.
I’m all for reasoned discourse and dialogue, but both sides need to reject their reactionary elements first.
