Points of View - Periodicals
Many news and opinion magazines try to give differing viewpoints. Others promote the ideas or philosophy of a particular group or institution. The following list of periodicals with their particular political or cultural slant will help you find articles with different views. You must remember that these are generalizations only and that the positions of some these periodicals may be liberal on some issues and conservative on others.
Periodical Title | Point of view** |
Advocate | Liberal (Gay/Lesbian) |
America | Catholic Jesuit |
American Enterprise | Conservative |
American Spectator | Conservative - Libertarian |
Christian Century | Moderate to liberal Protestant |
Christianity Today | Conservative Protestant |
Commentary | Moderate Jewish |
Commonweal | Catholic |
Dissent | Liberal |
Human Events | Conservative |
Humanist | Liberal |
Monthly Review | Socialist |
Nation | Liberal |
National Review | Conservative |
New Republic | Moderate to liberal |
Progressive | Liberal |
Tikkun | Liberal Jewish |
Utne | Liberal |
Weekly Standard | Conservative |
**The point of view listed here comes from
Magazines for
Libraries by William Katz or the
University of Washington Libraries Web site.