Category Archives: Magazines

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE – JUNE 2026 PREVIEW

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Covenant And The Wooden Box’ – The Betrayal of Britain’s Jews and the Corruption of Its Ruling Class.

The Covenant and the Wooden Box

by Mike Burke

The betrayal of Britain’s Jews and the corruption of its ruling class

In the northeast corner of Parliament Square, in the shadow of the Houses of Parliament, stands a bronze figure 12 feet high. Winston Churchill chose the spot himself in the 1950s, drawing a circle on a map and declaring with the finality of a man who knew his own place in history: “That is where my statue will go.” It was unveiled on the 1st of November in 1973. When the Queen spoke, she revealed a secret that Churchill himself had guarded: When offered a dukedom at the end of his life, he turned it down. He wished to spend his remaining years in the House of Commons—the Parliament he had saved, and that he loved more than any title the Crown could bestow.

The Analogy Wars

by John Podhoretz

For a decade, we’ve been awash in analogies between America in the Age of Trump and Germany in the two decades following World War I.

Most Democrats Don’t Like Israel Any Longer. Period.

by James Kirchick

The Declaration of Dependence

by Christine Rosen

Guernica Magazine ——— May 2026 Preview

GUERNICA MAGAZINE: The latest issue features striking original artwork courtesy of creators Jérémie Guiguen, Mike Blackman, Deepak, Taelor Worthington, and Cliff Warner.

Fiction & Nonfiction: You can explore the Fiction – Guernica section for recently published narrative stories and ongoing literary additions.

Special Issues: Guernica frequently publishes thematic special issues ranging from “Climate Fiction” to “Race in America,” all of which can be browsed via the Guernica Magazine Explore page. [1]

I Was Trying to Photograph a Feeling: Showkat Nanda on Buried Archives, Generational Memory, and Dreaming Against Forgetting in Kashmir

By Youmna M. Chamieh 

How do photographs carry the afterlives of violence? Threading together personal and collective histories, photographer Showkat Nanda reflects on documenting Kashmir not merely as a site of conflict, but as a lived world shaped by endurance and the struggle against forgetting.

Notes on Going Viral

By Isaac James Richards 

What I dream of, then, when I think about what Jürgen Habermas called “the postsecular society,” is a foggy middle path. I’m not willing to fall for the false choice between religion and democracy simply because either feels like more solid footing than walking the tightrope between them.

BARRON’S MAGAZINE ———- MAY 18, 2026 PREVIEW

Barron's | Financial and Investment News

BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Beyond Hormuz’ – Oil and gas production won’t rebound quickly, even if the Iran war ends soon. 11 stocks to play the worst supply shock ever, from our Energy Roundtable pros.

11 Stocks to Play the Biggest Energy Supply Shock Ever, From Our Energy Roundtable Pros

Oil and gas production won’t rebound quickly even if the Iran war ends soon. Why Devon Energy, Baker Hughes, and other stocks can weather the storm.

Tomato Prices Aren’t the Only Problem. How Retirees Can Beat Inflation.

Own some dividend stocks and bonds funds that inflation won’t chisel away.

IonQ and 5 More Stocks to Play Quantum Fever

Quantum computing may soon take off. Are the pure plays ready to go the distance?

10 Quality Stocks That Hit New Lows This Week—and Look Like Bargains

Even as tech surges, many other sectors in the market are trading at surprisingly attractive prices.

Nvidia’s Rally Is Just Getting Started. The Stock Is Still Cheap.

Nvidia trades at a discount to other semiconductors and can gain 50% from here.

Polymarket’s Most Contentious Debates Are Being Decided by Anonymous Crypto Votes

The prediction market outsources its disputed resolutions to an anonymous vote of crypto token holders. Some of those voters have financial incentives that could affect their votes.

NATIONAL REVIEW MAGAZINE – JULY 2026 PREVIEW

NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘The Cost of Fraud’ – And what to do about it.

Why the Fight Against Fraud Must Be Won

American taxpayers deserve better. Robert VerBruggen

I, Obama: Our Insufferable Ex-President

He is a committed ideologue and a partisan brawler who’s worked out how to hide those traits from the general public. Charles C. W. Cooke

The Scourge of Left-Wing Violence

What we learned from the riots of 2020. Noah Rothman

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – MAY 21, 2026 PREVIEW

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features

Lead Essays & Politics

  • “America’s Afghanistan Delusion” by Tom Stevenson: Stevenson examines the legacy of the War on Terror, arguing that the 2021 withdrawal from Kabul was viewed by the Western establishment as a “mistake” or “cautionary tale” rather than the “crime” he suggests it was. He traces the expansion of American power through “black sites” and military advisers across the globe.
  • “Short Cuts: Labour’s Failure” by James Butler: Butler analyzes the results of the English local elections (held on May 7). He criticizes Keir Starmer’s leadership style as “all injunction and no argument” and explores why national revulsion toward the Labour Party overshadowed local government issues.
  • “Where’s All the Cash?” by John Lanchester: A characteristically lucid investigation into modern economics, focusing on the circulation of physical currency and the shifting nature of wealth in a digital-first economy.

Literature & History

  • “On Marlen Haushofer” by Becca Rothfeld: A deep dive into the work of the Austrian writer, specifically her 1963 masterpiece The Wall. Rothfeld explores Haushofer’s recurring themes of entrapment and isolation, noting the paradoxical “joy” found in her most barricaded characters.
  • “Baltic Snake Cults” by Diarmaid MacCulloch: The eminent historian reviews the long survival of paganism and “serpent worship” in the Baltic regions, challenging the standard narrative of a monolithic Christian Europe during the Middle Ages.
  • “Should We Punish?” by Thomas Nagel: The philosopher engages with the ethics of the penal system, weighing the traditional justifications for punishment against contemporary moral and legal theories.

Other Features

“The Clearance of Aoineadh Mòr, 1824” by Tarn MacArthur: A historical account of the Highland Clearances, specifically focusing on the displacement of communities in Scotland.

At the Movies: Michael Wood provides his regular column of film criticism, likely focusing on current European or art-house releases.

Poetry & Correspondence: The issue also contains poems and a robust letters section, which in this period has been heavily occupied by debates over the Arctic (following Laleh Khalili’s piece in the previous issue) and the fallout of the UK local elections.

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – MAY 15, 2026 PREVIEW

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Among Putin’s Russians’…

Anti-communist or antisemitic?

The ideology behind Hitler’s assault on the Soviet Union By Richard J. Evans

‘Send on anything human’

Previously unseen letters between Ezra Pound and Gladys Hynes By Ed Vulliamy

You say lee-do …

The rise, fall and survival of open-air swimming pools By David Horspool

Main-character syndrome

Video games and political violence By Regina Rini

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE- MAY 10, 2026

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Amanda Hess on experiments in extending the life of dogs; Susan Dominus on the quest to master cellular rejuvenation; Devin Gordon on how athletes are extending their careers; Mark O’Connell on the rich and powerful craving eternal life; and more.

A Gun Derailed My Childhood. As an Adult, I Found Relief at the Range.

The guilt of my teenage conviction haunted me for decades. Learning to shoot helped me forgive myself as an adult.

A.I. Populism Is Here. And No One Is Ready.

Silicon Valley oligarchs worried about the risks their technology posed to the world. They forgot about people. By David Wallace-Wells

A Very American Controversy on the Art World’s Biggest Stage

Trump has taken an active role in the arts in his second term, which may be evident in the work on display at the Venice Biennale — depending on how you look at it. By M.H. Miller

What if You Could Give Your Dog a Longer Life?

The business of pet longevity is booming — driven, in part, by experimental treatments that might also have implications for us. By Amanda Hess

BARRON’S MAGAZINE ———- MAY 11, 2026 PREVIEW

Barron's | Financial and Investment News

BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Vanishing Breed’ – Low-cost flying faces serious threats. The demise of Spirit Airlines is only the beginning.

You’re Going to Miss Spirit Airlines. Cheap Flights Are Going Extinct.

The airline’s demise means higher costs for consumers, but also opportunities for investors.

This Mini Berkshire Hathaway Is a Buy. An Activist Investor Is Pushing to Break It Up.

Markel has improving insurance operations, a sizable equity portfolio, and a low valuation relative to specialty insurance peers.

Suddenly, It’s a ‘Family Office’ World

As wealth proliferates, more financial advice firms are adopting the “family office” moniker in an attempt to appeal to rich families’ desire for comprehensive services.

Why This Income Pro Likes Banks, Chip-Equipment Companies, and More

Michael Barclay, lead manager of the Columbia Dividend Income fund, favors dividend growers over high yields.

GE Aerospace Stock Has Been Unfairly Punished. It’s a Buy.

Investors can’t seem to look past the Middle East, but GE’s core business continues to grow.

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – MAY 9, 2026 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features The summit of suspicion‘…

The Trump-Xi summit will expose a dysfunctional duo

Mutual vulnerability is no substitute for global leadership

Narendra Modi’s party is on a roll in India

The BJP has beaten a bad ruler in West Bengal. But India must not become a de facto one-party state

The world must stop AI from empowering bioterrorists

The threat from new pathogens is an even graver danger than AI-backed hackers

Europe is unshackling business. But not enough

Why market liberals must win the battle for Brussels—and national capitals, too

To fight antisemitism, first grasp where it comes from

What looks like a 21st-century problem has deep, dark roots

SPECTACLE MAGAZINE —- SPRING 2026 PREVIEW

SPECTACLE MAGAZINE: This inaugural issue features the “mechanical culture” of Lego to luxury watchmaking in sailing, profiling Gumball 3000 founder Maximillion Cooper and Eastnor Castle’s Imogen Hervey-Bathurst……

Gone fishing: In the Andean foothills of Northern Patagonia, the wild trout are biting

Ivo Dawnay

The casa grande could be an ancient chalet in the Austrian Tyrol. A steeply gabled roof to slough off the winter snow, dandelion-yellow paintwork, and inside a treasure trove of all an outdoorsman loves. Antlers jostle for space on every wall. There is a tack room thick with the leathery tang of saddles, a bathroom

Colm Tóibín explores the art of short story writing

Amy Raphael

hen I was 20 and tentatively trying to write, every single person I knew read Ian McEwan’s First Love, Last Rites (1975). It not only gave the short story a good name, but it also gave writing a good name. It was like a punk moment converted into fiction. People used the word “macabre,” but there was a sort of excitement about the characters, the strangeness of the stories, the shortness of some of the stories and just how much contemporary urban life was in them.

Zack Christenson

Exploring the world’s oceans with the world’s most interesting man

Zack Christenson

“You can just do things.”

It’s a popular phrase on X, usually in response to someone accomplishing something remarkable, taken to mean that there’s nothing stopping you from doing something out of the ordinary. SpaceX might post video of a rocket landing – “you can just do things.” Victor Vescovo might be the living embodiment of the phrase.

My first introduction to Vescovo was an email from him, extending an invitation to be a guest at his table for the Explorers Club Annual Dinner. The name was vaguely familiar to me but didn’t immediately register. Who was this mysterious correspondent?