The New Leader

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| editor_title = Myron Kolatch

| previous_editor = Suzanne La Follette, Sol Levitas, James Oneal (founding editor)

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| frequency = bi-weekly

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| category = Politics and culture

| company = American Labor Conference on International Affairs

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| firstdate = 1924

| lastdate = 2006 (print)
2010 (digital)

| country = USA

| based = New York, New York

| language = English

| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20160719051942/http://www.thenewleader.com/ Archived website]

| issn = 0028-6044

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The New Leader (1924–2010) was an American political and cultural magazine.

History

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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 liberal and anti-communist. The Tamiment Institute was its primary supporter.

In its second decade, the magazine's overall politics shifted:{{blockquote|Under [Samuel "Sol"] 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.

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Editors

1924-1940: James Oneal, founding editor
1936-1960: Sol Levitas, managing editor

{{cite web

| title = New Leader records, 1895-2011 bulk 1924-2006

| publisher = Columbia University

| url = http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_6912690/index.html

| date = 2007

| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241213033944/https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_6912690

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| access-date = 14 October 2019}}

1940-1960: Sol Levitas, executive editor
1945-1950: Liston M. Oak, managing editor

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| title=Liston Oak Dies; Leftist Editor

| newspaper = The 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

| access-date= 14 October 2019}}

1950-1960: Suzanne La Follette, managing editor
1960-1961: Myron Kolatch, managing editor
1960-2006: Myron Kolatch, executive editor

Contributors

Its contributors were prominent liberal thinkers and artists. The New Leader was the first to publish Joseph Brodsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the United States. It was one of the first to publish 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, 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,

{{cite news

| url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/saunders-cold.html

| title=The Cultural Cold War

| newspaper=The New York Times

| date= 23 April 2000

| access-date= 14 October 2019}} Richard J. Margolis, Reuben Markham,{{cite news |last1=Markham |first1=Reuben |title=The Serbian Volcano |publisher=The New Leader |date=May 19, 1945}} etc. Claude McKay, C. Wright Mills, Hans Morgenthau, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Albert Murray, Ralph de Toledano, Reinhold Niebuhr, George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, Cyril Joad, Bayard Rustin, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and Tony Sender.

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| last=McGrath

| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/23/arts/23lead.html

| title=A Liberal Beacon Burns Out

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| date=January 23, 2006

| access-date=August 9, 2012}}Robert F. Wheeler (1972). "The Tony Sender Papers". Newsletter: European Labor and Working Class History No. 1 (May, 1972), pp. 5-7

Closure

The New Leader ceased print publication 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 in 2007.[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] He 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. Kolatch's "Who We Are and Where We Came From", adapted from the last print issue, covers some of the same topics.[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.

Notes

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20160719051942/http://www.thenewleader.com/ Archived 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] "Biographical Note"
[https://search.opinionarchives.com/TNL_Web/DigitalArchive.aspx?panes=2 The New Leader Digital Archive]

The New Leader

History

Editors

Contributors

Closure

See also

Notes

External links

Further reading