literary juggernaut
23 Jun 2005Troy Senik said this about The Economist:
There probably isn’t another publication that I find myself lining up with as often as the literary juggernaut The Economist. Their views on current affairs are generally as erudite as they are pithy (not an easy feat to pull off).
And I am around mmm, 60-65% sure he wasn’t joking.
I mean, I like the Economist and all – a nice read in the bathtub now and then to keep my finger on the pulse of The Establishment, but .. ‘literary juggernaut’?
Hmm, how to thread this needle…no, I certainly wasn’t joking when I referred to “The Economist” as a “literary juggernaut”. However, I wouldn’t say that I was being entirely literal either. I mean, really, who uses a phrase like “literary juggernaut” seriously? Consider it hyperbole with a point. I would still submit that the magazine is heads and tails above most (if not all) other news commentary in print. I shall now return to reading Lexington and being part of the establishment (a title which I feel too grossly underpaid to acccept).