> Do read it. But don’t start with the leaders. Start at the back where the world often appears in a less tidy and more truly thought-provoking form. I think

> Do read it. But don’t start with the leaders. Start at the back where the world often appears in a less tidy and more truly thought-provoking form. I think this is a good takeaway. I have been reading The Economist for ~ 10 years, a period in which my world view has shifted quite a bit. In the beginning, while still in high school, I essentially treated The Economist as the word of God (it's funny to see that that's actually what they were going for: when one young recruit was facing the challenge of composing their first leader, the advice they received from a senior editor was simple: “Pretend you are God.” ). I had no awareness that the publication followed an ideological line, I simply thought that that was the truth and everything going against it was simply wrong. After having left my native country to study and subsequently work in a bunch of different places, personal experience has clarified a lot of the misunderstandings I had about Western capitalist societies. I continue to read The Economist in its entirety every week, but I now see it partly as a source of information about current events and partly as the mouthpiece of the current ruling class. As long as you are able to correct for its biases and to not get too annoyed when they are blatantly partisan, The Economist is still a very useful and sometimes entertaining read.