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ONLINE NEWSLETTER: Selected E-mails to the Editor ARCHIVES: The Very Best of Radical Middle Access All Mark Satin Articles, 2005- 2009 Access All Mark Satin Articles, 1999- 2004 Access John Avlon Articles, 2004-2006 RADICAL MIDDLE, THE BOOK: RESPOND TO OUR ARTICLES AND VIEW OTHERS' RESPONSES: Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2008 - 2009 Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2007 Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2006 Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2005 Feisty Letters to the Editor, 2002-04 Feisty Letters to the Editor, 1999-2001 WHO WE ARE: About the Editor (In-House Version) About the Editor (By Marilyn Ferguson) About Our Directors and Advisors About Our Sponsor, the Center for Visionary Law RADICAL MIDDLE CONGRES- SIONAL SCORECARDS: 109th and 110th Congresses (2005-08) RADICAL MIDDLE POLITICAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS: SOME PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE BOOKS: 50 Best "Third Way" Books of the 1990s 25 Best "Transformational" Books of the 1980s 25 Best "New Age Politics" Books of the 1970s SOME PRIOR BOOKS BY MARK SATIN: New Options for America (book drawn from New Options News- letter, 1983-92) |
Mark's blog is "Very integral.
[Consider] his list of the best 'radical middle' magazines out there.
. . ." Ten Best Radical Middle Political Magazines There are many fine political magazines in the U.S. today. These just happen to be the ten best radical middle ones. And all of them are partly or entirely online. . . . The American -- smart, imaginative public policy articles from a center-right perspective. Every radical middle political thinker needs to integrate the truths they contain. Published by the American Enterprise Institute. Alternately, try City Journal from the center-right Manhattan Institute -- it's equally good and more sharp-elbowed. Atlantic -- stimulating ideas (provocative and nuanced at once -- not the easiest thing to pull off), exquisite writing, extraordinary breadth. Used to co-sponsor an annual public policy forum with the New America Foundation; see HERE. Alternately, try The New Yorker -- yes, The New Yorker -- which recently ran articles by former Radical Middle newsletter objects of attention George Packer and Zadie Smith, and profiles of former R.M.n.o.o.a.s Van Jones and Naomi Klein. Bookforum -- indispensable for keeping up with the latest public policy ideas (including visionary ideas) as well as all the twists and turns in American and global culture ("high" as well as pop). The online version, which we've linked to here, was started by a grad student at NYU, and appears several times daily. It's sort of a New York Times Book Review on steroids, with links to articles rather than its own commissioned articles, and with much greater range (so it's more pertinent to radical middle thinkers and activists, who borrow from everyone & everywhere). CRO: Corporate Responsibility Officer -- covers many of the people, groups, and corporations (or factions within corporations) trying to make capitalism more humane. CRO's "corporate members" include 150+ leading corporate responsibility practitioners, providers, and nonprofit advocates. Democracy: A Journal of Ideas -- compendium of "breakthough thinking" on most of the key issues of our time. Edited by scholar-activists Kenneth Baer & Andrei Cherny. ////////// EnlightenNext -- plays the same creative intellectual-political role in today’s spiritual & human potential subcultures that New Age Journal played in the 1970s and Utne Reader played in the 1980s. Alternately, try Kosmos, which bills itself as a "journal for planetary citizens committed to the birth and emergence of a new planetary culture and civilization." Foreign Policy -- cutting-edge articles on foreign affairs and globalization (it’s cautiously pro-). Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Futurist -- examines every aspect of our possible future(s); full of provocative policy suggestions. Published by the World Future Society. New Perspectives Quarterly -- smart, smart, smart articles on current affairs as well as on meta-issues behind current affairs, such as the world's allegedly disappearing borders. Published by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Washington Monthly -- how Washington really works . . . also how it SHOULD work. The articles that aren’t radical-centrist in perspective are jaded-cynical-postmodern, sometimes a fun substitute. The book reviews are especially worthwhile. ////////// DEFUNCT BUT STILL AVAILABLE ONLINE Blueprint (1998-2007, complete archive online) -- smart, imaginative policy articles from a center-left perspective. Every radical middle political thinker needs to integrate the truths they contain. Had been published by the Democratic Leadership Council. In Context (1983-1995, nearly complete archive online) -- magnificent attempt to define and inspire what it called a "humane, sustainable culture," and to analyze why we don't have one yet. Had been published by the Context Institute. Radical Middle (1999-2009, complete archive online) -- see "goodbye" article HERE. Had been published by the Center for Visionary Law. |
THE RADICAL MIDDLE CONCEPT: 50 Thinkers and Activists DESCRIBE the Radical Middle 50 Best Radical Middle BOOKS of the '00s 10 Best Radical Middle MAGAZINES 25 Arguably Radical Middle POLITICIANS GREAT RADICAL MIDDLE GROUPS AND BLOGS: Over 250 Great Radical Centrist GROUPS and Organizations 50 Great Radical Centrist BLOGS NOT JUST RADICAL MIDDLE: 50 Current Political IDEOLOGIES 50 Current Political MANIFESTOS 25 RED- HOT RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Future 500 [corporations & NGOs] Information Technology & Innovation Foundation Institute for Alternative Futures Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies International Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation Republican Main Street Partnership SOME PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES: Generational Equity and Communitarian platforms,1990s U.S. Green Party's "Ten Key Values" statement, 1980s Civil Rights Movement, 1960s (your editor is HERE, 6th from bottom) |