> I feel that the Economist is resting on its historic good name but has become a simple liberal rag that people use as a virtue signal. You mean liberal as in

> I feel that the Economist is resting on its historic good name but has become a simple liberal rag that people use as a virtue signal. You mean liberal as in economically liberal or liberal as in woke liberal? The magazine doesn't really publish a lot of the latter type of content, but I can definitely imagine people flexing the magazine out of snobbishness (kind of like the New Yorker). But that's a different kind of virtue signal