Yeah, yeah -- I know Reason is cooler and hipper and way more fun now that Nick Gillespie and Tim Cavanaugh are running the show, so why am I thinking I'll let my ten-year subscription lapse? Probably because now I read a lot less heard-headed sense there, like this from Charles Paul Freund:
The off-lede in the SOTU story is that the Democratic Party made a specific decision to go into hiding. With foreign policy the president's main topic -- and the material everybody was anticipating -- the Dems responded through a small-state governor. Whatever else he has going for him, Gary Locke has nothing to say about the Mideast or about war (that anybody wants to hear), and that seems to have been the point of using him. It allowed the Democrats to duck the issue. Of course, it was really the evening's only issue. Are Dems still debating why they blew the last election?
Anyone suppose there's any chance at all of getting Virginia Postrel back at the helm?
Cavanaugh will be the downfall of Reason Online...
The Dems are simply hoping to ride a bad economy and a war disaster.
Odds aren't all that bad that they'll get one or the other. Not that Iraq should be a disaster, but there's so many potentials for chaos after Saddam is dead, for more terrorist attacks, etc.
They're laying low and waiting to pounce. It's a calculated gamble.
I'm letting MY Reason sub lapse because the new super kewel modern hip up-to-date format combines sans serif type, pastel printed on a contrasting pastel, and some thing they have toward the back where the column is 3 to 4 words wide and goes on for pages. Stylish as hell, and almost unreadable for those of us who are color-blind.
They need a graphic designer, not the equivalent of a web author who just discovered Flash,
I let my Reason subscription lapse soon after Virginia Postrel handed off to Gillespie. I don't know what she sees in him, she was so good and he's so awful. What put me off is his desperate effort to always place Reason equidistant from conventional Republican and Democratic thought. Reason is no longer principle-and-idea-driven, rather it is emotionally driven by the goal of being in rebellion against established thought. It has become a stupid party.
...yeah, but them Brickbats is kinda fun...
I have been a Reason subscriber since '89, but I just let mine lapse for pretty much the same reasons as the other commenters here. Virginia Postrel made that magazine what it was, and it began to decline the moment she left.
I didn't subscribe to Reason for coolness and hipness. I subscribed because the magazine provided a clear, levelheaded, and truthful perspective on politics, economics, and liberty. If I want cool and hip, I'll subscribe to Wired.
While it's not the same sort of publication, for those who find the new Reason a bit trendy, I recommend Intellectual Activist. It has interesting, full length essays, printed on consecutive pages.
Hey, Goldstein's alive. Cool!
Hey prof. J-Go - you comin' outta retirement anytime soon?
