Some time ago I expressed my irritation about PJMedia’s fundraising machinations — i.e. by sticking most of their articles behind a paywall — which would be fine, if the articles were worth more than just a passing interest. To my mind, most of them aren’t. And in consequence, I see little reason to support PJMedia with any kind of subscription, despite their continuous blandishments to do so.
Yesterday, I linked to this article because it resonated with me as few of PJMedia’s articles do:
Then I went back to American Thinker‘s home page and looked over the rest of the articles:
I went and read every single one of them, and found them all to be uniformly excellent, not just in their analysis, but in that they made me aware of things I hadn’t known before, or else provided a foundation to some of my own opinions that I hadn’t bothered examining too closely (Twisted Psychology being a good example). Also, note the datelines of the articles: those are just some of the most recent articles posted.
I’ve known about American Thinker pretty much ever since they came into existence, but they were never a mainstream reading choice because I’m an idiot, and also because reading their material often makes my brain hurt (which, by the way, is a Good Thing for political commentary but a Bad Thing in literature #Proust #Pynchon).
No more.
So I cancelled one of my (underperforming) streaming TV channels, and redirected that money towards a sub for American Thinker. They deserve no less — and by the way, they are thus far the only online publication I’ve bothered to subscribe to. The others are, shall we say, less worthy.