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Costanza13y40

If you like Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Greg Palast, TruthOut and FAIR, you'll probably hate Steve Sailer. FAIR has called him "a well-known promoter of racist and anti-immigrant theories. "

Vaniver13y50

Steve Sailer is probably closer to LW's style than those folks, though.

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7 Curious authors and 'zines?

by lukeprog

5th Feb 2012

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I sometimes enjoy investigative reporting and news analysis published at some of the leading 'zines: The Economist, The Atlantic, Wired, Businessweek, Salon, The New Yorker. (Note: I never check these sites; I just occasionally click through from other, more selective sources.)

But I don't read enough stories to have found any that I'm confident are consistently driven by genuine curiosity. Imagine a webzine where stories are researched by a horde of gwern uploads and written by a horde Yvain uploads.

Can LWers recommend any consistently curious webzines/magazines, or at least some consistently curious authors?

For example: Glenn Greenwald shows some promise, but I haven't had time to investigate. How about Seymour Hersh? Greg Palast? TruthOut? FAIR?

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[-]komponisto13y110

Less Wrong magazine...

...that kind of has a nice ring to it.

("A publication of the Rationality Institute [or whatever]")

[-]Costanza13y40

If you like Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Greg Palast, TruthOut and FAIR, you'll probably hate Steve Sailer. FAIR has called him "a well-known promoter of racist and anti-immigrant theories. "

[-]Vaniver13y50

Steve Sailer is probably closer to LW's style than those folks, though.

[-]Costanza13y30

I agree. For instance, I see now he was indirectly responsible for the Q&A with Harpending and Cochran on LessWrong a while back.

[-]katydee13y10

It seems at least to me that Glenn Greenwald is extremely ideologically biased and likely not motivated by genuine curiosity.

[-]gwern13y10

This isn't exactly what you are asking for, but perhaps it's a starting point: I keep my bundled RSS subscriptions at http://www.gwern.net/docs/gwern-google-reader-subscriptions.xml

(Note that it's quite a lot of stuff, and you will want to prune heavily.)

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[-]lukeprog13y00

Can I import this into Google reader or something?

[-]Risto_Saarelma13y30

Remember to back up your own stuff by exporting it before doing anything with the automated feed bundle import.

[-][anonymous]12y00

I hope lukeprog will also post his own RSS subscriptions.

[-]gwern13y00

I think you can, into Google Reader or most RSS readers; that's what it's supposed to be usable for. I've never actually tried it.

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[-]Unnamed13y00

I like Matthew Yglesias as a columnist who tries to understand & explain what's actually going on with current events / the economy / politics, rather than just battling for a side. At your level of engagement, I'd recommend reading his articles rather than his blog. I think the Moneybox archive is the easiest way to find them (since Slate doesn't seem to have a page which lists only his articles and not his blog posts).

[-]TimS13y00

Have you looked the blogs of academics? I find that many law professors blog about topics based on intellectual interest, rather than partisan axe grinding (but it depends a lot on the site).

Sentencing law
Random law
Orin Kerr and (sometimes) Eugene Volokh at Volokh's blog

Of course, I'm a lawyer, so these may be inherently more interesting to me than to others.

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