Top Quality

The art of short non-fiction writing lives on. I have subscribed to this magazine since 1981, a very different world then, but have been consistently impressed with WQ. This magazine has always demonstrated an excellence in style, content and quality of writing. My favorite is that it has reviews of other magazine articles, something I always look forward to. If controversy or an edge is what you are looking for, this may not be your cup of soup. But if you are looking for a condensed and concise article on a subject you may know nothing about, coming away feeling just a little bit more informed about the world, I can't think of a better source.

Organ of the Radical Center

How to characterize this magazine? It's a cross between Reader's Digest and US News and World Report, with a higher Flesch-Kincaid rating. Most of the articles read like popularizations of the output of political science departments (with a bias toward Princeton, of course). In my year's subscription, I found it a little too safe, accommodating, and middling, and I did not renew.

Excellent.

This is definitely the cream of the crop. I would recommend this publication to anyone. It is well-rounded, thoughtful, and aware of present events without being sensationally consumed by them. Definitely worth subscribing.