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Line 1: {{Short description\|American political and cultural magazine}} {{about\|\|the British socialist newspaper\|Labour Leader\|the DJ Starscream album\|The New Leader (album)}} {{Infobox magazine Line 23 ⟶ 24: \| issn = 0028-6044 }} '''''The New Leader''''' (~~1924–2006~~1924–2010) was aan American political and cultural [[magazine]]. ==History== ''The New Leader'' began in 1924 under a group of figures associated with the [[Socialist Party of America]], such as [[Eugene V. Debs]] and [[Norman Thomas]]. It was published in [[New York City]] by the [[American Labor Conference on International Affairs]]. Its orientation was [[Left-wing politics\|liberal]] and [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]]. The [[Tamiment Institute]] was its primary supporter. Its overall politics shifted in its second decade: <blockquote>Under Levitas's editorship, during years when the much-higher-circulation Nation and New Republic often ran acrobatic apologies for Stalin, the New Leader became a bi-weekly platform for what was then known as liberal anti-Communism.<ref> Line 37 ⟶ 38: \| page= \| date=August 24, 2010 \| ~~accessdate~~access-date=August 9, 2012}}</ref> </blockquote> Line 49 ⟶ 50: \| url = http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_6912690/index.html \| date = 2007 \| ~~accessdate~~access-date = 14 October 2019}}</ref> * 1940-1960: Sol Levitas, executive editor 1945-1950: [[Liston M. Oak]], managing editor<ref> {{cite news \| title=Liston Oak Dies; Leftist Editor \| ~~publisher~~work = New York Times \| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/09/archives/liston-oak-dies-leftist-editor-exhead-of-new-leader-quit-communists.html \| date= 9 February 1970 \| ~~accessdate~~access-date= 14 October 2019}}</ref> 1950-1960: [[Suzanne La Follette]], managing editor ** 1960-1961: [[Myron Kolatch]], managing editor Line 64 ⟶ 65: ==Contributors== Its contributors were ~~dominant~~prominent ~~[[Liberalism\|~~liberal]] thinkers and artists. ''The New Leader'' was the first ~~published~~to publish [[Joseph Brodsky]] and [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] in the United States. It was one of the first ~~published~~to publish [[Martin Luther King~~, Jr.\|Martin Luther King,~~ Jr.]]'s]] 1963 "[[Letter from Birmingham Jail]].". Other contributors, who were generally paid nothing or only a modest fee, included [[James Baldwin (writer)\|James Baldwin]], [[Daniel Bell]], [[Willy Brandt]], [[David Dallin]], [[Milovan Djilas]], [[Theodore Draper]], [[Max Eastman]], [[Ralph Ellison]], [[Sidney Hook]], [[Hubert Humphrey]], [[George F. Kennan]], [[Murray Kempton]], [[Irving Kristol]], [[Melvin Lasky]],<ref> {{cite news \| url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/first/s/saunders-cold.html \| title=The Cultural Cold War \| ~~publisher~~work=New York Times \| date= 23 April 2000 \| ~~accessdate~~access-date= 14 October 2019}}</ref> Richard J. Margolis, [[Reuben Markham]],<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Markham \|first1=Reuben \|title=The Serbian Volcano \|publisher=The New Leader \|date=May 19, 1945}} etc.</ref> [[Claude McKay]], [[C. Wright Mills]], [[Hans Morgenthau]], [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]], [[Albert Murray (writer)\|Albert Murray]], [[Ralph de Toledano]], [[Reinhold Niebuhr]], [[George Orwell]], [[Bertrand Russell]], Cyril Joad, [[Bayard Rustin]], [[Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.]] and [[Tony Sender]].<ref> {{cite news \| first=Charles Line 76 ⟶ 77: \| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/23/arts/23lead.html \| title=A Liberal Beacon Burns Out \| ~~publisher~~work=New York Times \| pages= \| page= \| date=January 23, 2006 \| ~~accessdate~~access-date=August 9, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Papers">Robert F. Wheeler (1972)"The Tony Sender Papers" ''Newsletter: European Labor and Working Class History'' No. 1 (May, 1972), pp. 5-7</ref> ==Closure== ''The New Leader'' ceased print publication ~~following~~after the January/April 2006 double issue. A bimonthly online version was published from January/February 2007 to May/June/July/August 2010. Longtime Editor Myron Kolatch conducted an interview with Columbia University's ''[[The Current (Columbia University journal)\|The Current]]'' in ~~Spring~~ 2007.<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20121017124912/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/spring2007/current-qa.html The Current: Spring 2007 Current Q & A: Myron Kolatch]</ref> He mainly discussed the history of journals of ideas (''The New Leader'', ''[[Partisan Review]]'', ''[[The New Republic]]'', ''[[National Review]]''), and their role in politics and intellectual discourse. ~~Also worth reading is~~ Kolatch's "Who We Are and Where We Came From", adapted from the last ~~in-~~print issue, covers some of the same topics.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070221125242/http://www.thenewleader.com/pdf/who-we-are.pdf Who We Are and Where We Came From], The New Leader.</ref>▼ ~~A bimonthly online version was published from January/February 2007 to May/June/July/August 2010.~~ ▲Longtime Editor Myron Kolatch conducted an interview with Columbia University's ''[[The Current (Columbia University journal)\|The Current]]'' in Spring 2007.<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20121017124912/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/spring2007/current-qa.html The Current: Spring 2007 Current Q & A: Myron Kolatch]</ref> He mainly discussed the history of journals of ideas (''The New Leader'', ''[[Partisan Review]]'', ''[[The New Republic]]'', ''[[National Review]]''), and their role in politics and intellectual discourse. Also worth reading is Kolatch's "Who We Are and Where We Came From", adapted from the last in-print issue.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070221125242/http://www.thenewleader.com/pdf/who-we-are.pdf Who We Are and Where We Came From], The New Leader.</ref> ==See also== Line 103 ⟶ 102: * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160719051942/http://www.thenewleader.com/ Official website] * [https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_6912690 Columbia University ''New Leader'' archive] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20141210113232/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_6912690/index.html Columbia University ''New Leader'' archive]~~{{dead link\|date=August 2019}}~~ "Biographical Note" ==Further reading== Line 119 ⟶ 118: [[Category:Socialist Party of America publications]] [[Category:Socialist magazines]] [[Category:1924 establishments in New York City]] [[Category:2006 disestablishments in New York (state)]]