The New Leader

The New Leader

First issue	1924
Final issue	2006 (print) 2010 (digital)
Company	American Labor Conference on International Affairs
Country	USA
Based in	New York, New York
Website	thenewleader.com

For the British socialist newspaper, see the Labour Leader.

For the DJ Starscream album, see The New Leader (album).

The New Leader was a political and cultural magazine begun in 1924 by a group of figures associated with the Socialist Party of America, including Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas, and published in New York by the American Labor Conference on International Affairs. Its orientation is liberal and anti-communist. The Tamiment Institute was the magazine's primary supporter. The founding editor was James Oneal who was succeeded by Sol Levitas in 1940, with Myron (Mike) Kolatch taking over in 1961. The New Leader ceased print publication following the January/April 2006 double issue; a bimonthly online version was published from January/February 2007 to May/June/July/August 2010.

Its contributors were dominant liberal thinkers and artists. The New Leader first published Joseph Brodsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the United States. It first published Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Other contributors, who were generally paid nothing or only a modest fee, included James Baldwin, Daniel Bell, Willy Brandt, Milovan Djilas, Theodore Draper, Max Eastman, Ralph Ellison, Hubert Humphrey, George F. Kennan, Murray Kempton, Hans Morgenthau, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Albert Murray, Ralph de Toledano, Reinhold Niebuhr, George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, Bayard Rustin, and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr..

Longtime Editor Myron Kolatch conducted an interview with Columbia University's The Current in Spring 2007 [1]. 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" [2], adapted from the last in-print issue.

External links

• Official website
• McGrath, Charles (January 23, 2006). "A Liberal Beacon Burns Out". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/23/arts/23lead.html?ex=1295672400&en=54d83b88018340eb&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss. 
• Columbia University New Leader archive
• Epstein, Joseph "New Leader Days: Can you have a political magazine without politics?" The Weekly Standard 9/18/2006
• Richard Bernstein "65th Birthday Party for a Voice of Liberal Opinion" New York Times

See also

• Anti-Stalinist left
• New York intellectuals

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