What Others Have Said About Us Over the Years

"The New Leader is one of the few weeklies which I read most of with regularity. I find statements of fact not otherwise available to me; I find the point of view generally sympathetic; and when I disagree (as I inevitably do from time to time), it helps me to understand better some position different from my own." — T.S. Eliot

"The New Leader has fulfilled an important function of political enlightenment... and is still doing so." — Arthur Koestler

"The New Leader contains more news and does more brain work about vital issues than any other publication." — Max Eastman

"You fellows at The New Leader have an awareness and sagacity about what is doing in the world scene that is all too rare." — Carl Sandburg

"I consider The New Leader a real voice of our people and I value its forthrightness and integrity." — Pearl S. Buck

"I read it regularly and never without gain and stimulation." — Thomas Mann

"I read The New Leader regularly. I find in it news not available elsewhere, especially as to European conditions." — John Dewey

"I read your paper with the greatest of interest; it's about the only paper left that has information in it you can't find in the New York Times." — John Dos Passos

"[The New Leader] has fought a good fight, and keeps on fighting... . I still think it is a good paper, which has done a good job for human freedom at home and abroad." — Elmer Davis

"The New Leader has been a champion of good causes... . In the era which we are now entering it will find its services more needed than ever." — Eleanor Roosevelt

"May I especially wish you continued success in your aid in creating a better understanding of foreign policy." — Cordell Hull

"The New Leader... despite its small circulation has always had a remarkable impact on opinion-forming circles. I have been associated with the magazine for over a quarter of a century, and it has always hung on by its fingernails, counting on unpaid contributions from such distinguished figures as Hans J. Morgenthau, the late Reinhold Niebuhr, Ralph Ellison, and even—some years back—a frustrated journalist named John Fitzgerald Kennedy." — John P. Roche

"I always find your magazine of great interest and sincerely believe you perform a great service for this country." — Robert F. Kennedy

"Your pages have reflected at all times both critical ferment and social vision. You have been hospitable to many points of view yet have never failed to meet the hard and critical issues which have called for public discussion and decision." — President John F. Kennedy

"The current esthetic scene—books, films, theatre, art, and so on—is gaily dismembered on a biweekly basis. For the fastidious there is nothing quite like this in the magazine scene." — Philadelphia Evening Bulletin

"One of the truly remarkable publications of these dangerous times." — Fortune "Wields influence out of all proportion to its size." — Time

"By the standards of Life, Look and dozens of other long-gone magazines of mass circulation, The New Leader has always ranked as a pygmy. But this estimable biweekly of news and opinion... never depended on numbers for either its usefulness or its influence. It rarely pays for an article; yet over the years its columns have carried thoughtful contributions by the famous and the obscure—many of which have helped to reshape history. In the words of Myron Kolatch, its executive editor, one would have to be a schizophrenic to agree with everything in The New Leader. It is precisely that quality of openness to reasoned divergence that makes it at once lively and respected..." — The New York Times