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Wow, I had no idea his great-grandfather was one of the founders of Texaco. I guess that's how you get the money and time to start a publication! I subscribed t
by mtalantikite 2y ago
Wow, I had no idea his great-grandfather was one of the founders of Texaco. I guess that's how you get the money and time to start a publication! I subscribed to Harpers and the first few years of LQ when I was in college/early-20s. I wonder how I'd like it these days, but I appreciate what it did for me in those earlier years of development.
- ghaff 2y agoThere are probably a fair number of these smaller premium publications that have existed in no small part because they're being bankrolled by some wealthy person as, if not quite a hobby, certainly adjacent to it.
- mtalantikite 2y agoOh, for sure. The first that comes to mind is the lit magazine and publisher Catapult, which was founded by a Koch heir. There are lots of others.
- fotta 2y agoAnother is Quanta magazine, funded by the Simons Foundation, funded by Jim Simons (RIP)
- mturmon 2y agoThe Nation is published and for many years was edited by Katrina vanden Heuvel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_vanden_Heuvel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_vanden_Heuvel), whose grandfather founded MCA (now Universal).