The Public Interest Magazine

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Founded in 1965, The Public Interest is a leading journal on politics and culture, aimed at a readership of journalists, scholars, and policy makers. Its focus has at various times settled on the fate of social security, the character of Generation X, crime and punishment, love and courtship, the culture wars, the tax wars, the state of the underclass, the salaries of the overclass.

The Public Interest has published such prominent writers as James Q. Wilson, Charles Murray, Martin Feldstein, Leon Kass, Irwin M. Stelzer, Daniel P. Moynihan, Nathan Glazer, Glenn C. Loury, Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom, Francis Fukuyama, and David Brooks.

Thew journal's mission statement is as follows: "The aim of The Public Interest is at once modest and presumptuous. It is to help all of us when we discuss issues of public policy, to know a little better what we are talking about - and preferably in time to make such knowledge effective."