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What printed publications do you recommend?

Of course, that's individual, they have to fit one's worldview to be palatable. We are long past the time when a singular "objective truth" existed at all. For me for example, The Economist feels legit.

That’s a weird take.

A singular "objective truth" never existed. That’s the basis of historiography.

Publications can be "palatable" while not fitting one’s "worldview". The goal of reading should be to be challenged. You can find interesting things anchored in many theoretical frameworks and I encourage people to read editorials spanning different political leanings.

To answer the original comment, I personally read and enjoy The New Yorker and grab the LRB and the Economist from time to time on top of what I read in my native language.

There has never been an "objective truth". I suspect most people look back and think the news was cleaner when it reality it was not. There are still many publications worthy of a read.

And of course the Economist was literally created to promote free-market ideology:

PROSPECTUS of a weekly paper, to be published every Saturday, and to be called THE ECONOMIST, which will contain — First.—ORIGINAL LEADING ARTICLES, in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day ...

<https://web.archive.org/web/20181105190846/https://www.econo...>

That's what i mean. Read something that aligns with your personal world. TIME feels too left-wing vs my own views, after reading half an issue i usually start feeling irritated. The Economist has same bias as myself so i find stuff there very logical and fitting my world.

Fair enough, though it wasn't clear to me on first read (and still isn't even after reading your clarification) on your initial comment.

I'll also note that I find the Economist to be among the better sources I read, and its (broadly-advertised) advocacy isn't as obnoxious as in some other pubs or institutions which come to mind.

If you live in the UK, Private Eye

If you like soccer, The Blizzard

New York Review of Books is excellent.

https://www.nybooks.com

Harpers

I recently found https://thebaffler.com/ after watching an interview with its publisher, Thomas Frank, which resonated with me (left-leaning but anti-woke). I haven't read much of it to evaluate yet, though.

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