Thoughts Deserving Permanence In A Fleeting Age
The Critical Launches
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The blogosphere has many strengths - but one of its great weaknesses is a lack of permanence. If you're away from your computer for a few days, or even a few hours, it's easy to miss some of the great writing that's on the web. But what if there were a quarterly publication featuring contributions from some of the fantastic writers of the blogosphere?
I'm proud to announce a new quarterly journal: THE CRITICAL. It's a paperback perfect-bound collection of expanded blog posts, interviews, reviews, and original content covering the full gamut of political and cultural topics. It's edited by RedState's own Ben Domenech, advisory editors include Hugh Hewitt, Adam Bellow, and First Things' Joseph Bottum, and the contributors feature many online writers whose names you know and love.
For a blogger, you can finally hand people a hard copy of a great post you've written in a brilliantly designed format, instead of just directing them to a website archive. For a reader, this journal is designed for someone who ought to be reading blogs but doesn't have the time, or just doesn't know where to start.
This is the writing that's absolutely critical for you to read, consistent with the journal's founding purpose: thoughts deserving permanence in a fleeting age. That's why Redstate is proud to be the advertiser in this inaugural issue.
THE CRITICAL is available for purchase here. I just ordered my copy (just $11 total with US Postal Regular shipping), and I urge you all to go get your copy today!
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Just follow the link, and then click on the "sneak preview" on the left side of the screen.
Thanks!
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I'll admit, as a student at a college that is obsessed with publishing all kinds of journals on even the most trivial of subjects, I'm a bit biased towards chronicling everything in quarterly publications. It makes everything seem so official and high-falutin'. My question is will you allow, say, RedState posters to submit their pieces for review, or is your method to solicit articles from well-known bloggers and/or comb through the internet looking for articles on your own?
Is there going to be a place online where you can get an idea of what's in it? Like a sample of the table of contents?
And this is great news! Congratulations, Ben! This thing will be huge. Everyone go buy your copy RIGHT NOW, please.
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