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Wilson Quarterly on the Kindle

Wilson Quarterly on the Kindle

Posted on by Jack

I mentioned before that I subscribed to the Wilson Quarterly by mail for several years. There were long articles and almost always several were interesting. There were shorter articles (maybe a page or so) which summarized longer articles often published in scholarly journals or more popular magazines of the intellectual or policy type. And Book Reviews that I found interesting.

The Wilson Quarterly was a very thought provoking and often gave me a look and differing perspectives on various issues. But a while back, they stopped printing on paper and published the Quarterly on the web.

I was trying to decide if I wanted a web subscription. I enjoy reading in my easy chair and was looking for something that would allow me to read the Wilson Quarterly without sitting at my computer. Of course I could get a web subscription and read at my desk or on my laptop or Chromebook.

I also noticed they have subscriptions via iPad, Nook, Kindle Fire, Kindle, Android Tablets and Sony but I had none of these except an old Kindle. So I thought I would give the Kindle subscription a try.

I was a bit skeptical since the Kindle was several years old (no touch) and I was unsure how easy it would be to maneuver around the Wilson Quarterly as there are several sections and several articles withing each section. So far it seems fairly easy to move around and read articles of interest.

Amazon has a try it policy. I am now trying out the Kindle version for a 30 day trial. You order and give credit card info but they won’t start charging while you are in the trial period. What could be fairer than that?

Gridlock illusion WQ

Gridlock illusion WQ

Posted on by Jack

For many years I subscribed to the Wilson Quarterly and enjoyed it when it landed in my mailbox. There were almost always several articles worth reading and shorter articles including Book Reviews that I found interesting. It was a very thought provoking and often gave me a look and differing perspectives on various issues. But they stopped printing and I miss it.

These articles are still published but on the web. Since I still get email from them, this morning, I decided to read an article pointing how our government still works and why the founders designed it the way they did. It was interesting reading since so much of the news around our government lately has been about the gridlock in Washington that led to the recent government shutdown and debt crisis.

The article The Gridlock Illusion by R. Shep Melnick which is subtitled “If Washington seems to get much less done than it once did, it is partly because it is trying to do so much more” is well-worth reading.

The Wilson Quarterly is published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. They list several subscription options on their website. I’ll be doing a little thinking about which makes makes sense for me.