Rubicon

A journal of books and ideas at the point of decision. Essays on politics, history and culture. Published four times a year.

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Free for 48 hours: Gonçalves' review, in full. Rubicon publishes reviews of this length and seriousness in every issue. If that's the kind of criticism you want more of, subscribe or order Issue 1 in print.

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In Rubicon's first issue, Félix Gonçalves reads Marc Trachtenberg's revisionist Cold War history A Constructed Peace and finds an unsettling pattern: successive postwar presidents desired a militarily strong Europe, only to be undermined by their own officials. Link in reply:

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We are pleased to announce the launch of Rubicon, a new quarterly of books and ideas.

Every journal makes a wager about what its readers can bear: how much difficulty, how much dissent, and how much of the past. Our wager is that they can bear quite a lot. Elsewhere, opinion arrives without argumentation and the facts of history arrive flattened into whatever narrative is needed by present expediencies. We are betting on the alternative: that a reader will follow an essay of six thousand words if the thinking is honest, and that ideas outside the current consensus deserve the same attention as those inside it.

Rubicon exists because the essay-review—long-form, argued, unhurried—has become an endangered form of thought. Our inaugural issue attempts to reinvigorate that tradition by bringing together eight essay-reviews spanning left-wing political violence, Cold War diplomacy, civil rights law, fin-de-siècle Vienna, Hollywood’s rise and fall, the ideological ferment of interwar Italy and France, and generative anthropology.

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@TomPRM We do provide international shipping to the UK. Please try checking out again from the store page and let us know on [email protected] if your issue hasn't been resolved.

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@LaughingCav1 Yes, Rubicon is an American magazine.

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@thetrue_dc Fixed. Thanks for the flag.

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We are thrilled by your feedback. For one week, we're opening access to John Le Verrier's review of Jeremy Carl's The Unprotected Class—a sharp reckoning with one of the decade's most contested arguments about American demography. Link below:

[Rubicon @Rubicon_Press]

We are pleased to announce the launch of Rubicon, a new quarterly of books and ideas.

Every journal makes a wager about what its readers can bear: how much difficulty, how much dissent, and how much of the past. Our wager is that they can bear quite a lot. Elsewhere, opinion arrives without argumentation and the facts of history arrive flattened into whatever narrative is needed by present expediencies. We are betting on the alternative: that a reader will follow an essay of six thousand words if the thinking is honest, and that ideas outside the current consensus deserve the same attention as those inside it.

Rubicon exists because the essay-review—long-form, argued, unhurried—has become an endangered form of thought. Our inaugural issue attempts to reinvigorate that tradition by bringing together eight essay-reviews spanning left-wing political violence, Cold War diplomacy, civil rights law, fin-de-siècle Vienna, Hollywood’s rise and fall, the ideological ferment of interwar Italy and France, and generative anthropology.

Subscribe online or order your print copy—and join the conversation. Link below:

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