The magazines the OP cites, Reason, The National Review and Jacobin, are all good, principled magazines from their respective points of view (National Review ha

The magazines the OP cites, Reason, The National Review and Jacobin, are all good, principled magazines from their respective points of view (National Review has written scathingly of Trump notably not as a concession to liberalism as well as I know). As someone well the left, I'd still take articles from either Reason or National Review seriously, for example. And Jacobin doesn't take a single, fixed leftist position either. Aspiring to produce a magazine of that quality seems reasonable and quite possible in the abstract.