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Article: Seventy-five years!
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- November 19, 1999
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Journals of opinion come in all shapes and sizes, and in varying degrees of persuasiveness. Readers pick up some to be consoled and reassured, others to be provoked, and still others to find ammunition for political or ideological battles. And then there is the excitement of encountering a new writer, a genuinely new perspective, or even a good old idea decked out in unexpected but pleasing new attire. Throughout its seventy-five year history, Commonweal has, with varying degrees of success, performed all of these services for its readership-plus, we hope, providing that hard-to-define something more that forges a permanent bond between a magazine and its audience. In ...