I binged a library's archives of New Scientist and Scientific American so I got to see their decay displayed in the clearest possible light. So what I'm saying is maybe Cato wasn't always staffed by drooling morons.
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I don't see how it's much to write about? They started writing about science and other things of genuine interest, but slowly got absorbed by politics, which drove out the writers with actual interests.
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Yeah the story is depressingly easy to put together. I was talking about illuminating the details of this particular case study - visually even.
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I could do a few examples if the back catalogues are online.
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yes please!
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It's gonna look a lot like this, but probably shorter. Replace videos with article links. http://alrenous.blogspot.com/2012/08/juxtaposition-v-reality-vs-presentation.html … Also don't hold your breath. I'll ping you when they appear.
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...or the archives appear to be not online.
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Funny that!
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NS has back issues online. SA has the newest issues online. I'm wondering if it's too confounding or if I can hack something out of this.
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A Book of Decay, charting the recent degeneration of, say, 10 cultural institutions would be a great resource, actually. ...
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... I'd recommend inclusion of The Economist, but it already went full-Heathite in the 1970s (and probably last did genuine liberalism in the 19th Century).
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... Nose dive of The Atlantic is a lot more recent.
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