Centerfield

Partisans Of The Radical Center

Through Mark Jurkowitz in the Phoenix, I learned that the editors who resigned from the New York Press when it refused to print the Muhammed cartoons are associated with an online magazine

Siegel and Marchman are founding editors of the neocon-influenced New Partisan blog, which describes its ideology as “partisans of the radical center ... socially liberal and fiscally conservative.”

I thank Jurkowitz for the heads-up, but I think New Partisan is more of an online magazine that a blog. To call it "neocon-influenced" may also confuse some. The influence is more of the old New York intellectual circles before many of them went neocon.

It is also open to submissions, and I would encourage all of us to try to write some long essays and submit the pieces to them. There are very few magazines for centrists, aside from The New Republic and The Atlantic, both august publications not easy to break into. The right and the left both have farm teams that allow writers to grow. Perhaps we can join together with New Partisan to build the influence of the center.

Posted by Rick Heller at February 21, 2006 12:12 PM