# Most Thought-Provoking/Best Written Magazine **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 2, 2001, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-thought-provoking-best-written-magazine/48048 "2001-01-02T03:11:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2001, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-thought-provoking-best-written-magazine/48048/21 "2001-01-02T21:50:49Z")
The best thing, IMHO, about _The New Yorker_ these days is [Malcolm Gladwell’s](http://www.gladwell.com) science writing. Otherwise, it’s been sort of hit or miss. I still subscribe when they offer me a rate below about $22/year, figuring that I’d spend that much in any given year buying it at the newstand. After several cycles of letting my subscription lapse for several months and holding out until I get offered a year for $18.95 or so, they seem to have decided I’m not worth it. _The Economist_ is still my favorite magazine to not subscribe to. I love it, but I can’t justify it given how much of it goes unread every issue – I barely managed to keep ahead of the mailman with the next issue when I was single and my SO was overseas for a year during the 1992 presidential campaign. Married with two kids under age four, there’s just no way. I don’t necessarily agree with the editorial position, but at least it’s explicit and I know where they’re coming from, so I know how to read it. When I feel the need to know what’s going on in the world, however, I do still buy it. _The Atlantic Monthly_ has passed up _Harper’s_ and _The New Yorker_ as my general interest mag of choice these days. Now if someone brought back _Wig Wag_, I’d be a happy man. ---
**Author:** ![Saturn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@Saturn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saturn)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-thought-provoking-best-written-magazine/48048/22 "2001-01-03T00:57:36Z")
I’d have to say **The Eponymous Monthly** with **full-color centerfolds**! I swear I read it for the articles…_Begins running…_ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-thought-provoking-best-written-magazine/48048/23 "2001-01-03T05:38:31Z")
There is only one magazine I have a 5-year subscription for: **Skeptic**. ---
**Author:** ![Tie-Dye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Tie-Dye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tie-Dye)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-thought-provoking-best-written-magazine/48048/24 "2001-01-03T05:48:31Z")
Gotta add my vote for National Geographic, of course, it’s one of those you have to save to read and look at again…I also like Adbusters for interesting/thought provoking articles. Used to like Discover too, but IMHO it’s gone downhill in the last couple of years, I didn’t renew my subscription. ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-thought-provoking-best-written-magazine/48048/25 "2001-01-03T05:58:41Z")
**CounterPunch** ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-thought-provoking-best-written-magazine/48048/26 "2001-01-03T12:11:18Z")
The Utne Reader is usually pretty interesting, though it used to be better in culling pieces from the alternative press. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-thought-provoking-best-written-magazine/48048.md?page=1)