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February Issue Debuts Tomorrow |
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Here at The Seminal we try to stay distinctive among online publications and within the media world generally. A blog we are, certainly - but also a professional-quality journal in the sense that we:
- Exhibit professionalism in our respectful treatment of all persons and viewpoints, including those our authors disagree with vehemently.
- Maintain impeccable standards of spelling and grammar (except through the deliberate use of slang to better communicate meaning).
- Use sources responsibly.
- Not only report current events to our readership, but also reflect on the meaning and historical context of these events.
Through our professionalism, we're trying to hold the media to a higher standard. You'll find no hysteria here, nor Bush-bashing, nor hype and propaganda. Rather, you'll find authors thinking through issues and presenting their analyses in a clear, well-reasoned, and informative manner.
In that spirit, we bring you, tomorrow, our debut issue for 2007.
Revolving around the theme of the "spiritual left" - the idea that religion and morality are just as much the province of liberals as conservatives - the articles in our February issue explore themes such as organizations and changing constituencies, politics of consumption, and the religious issues involved with the spread of American consumer culture throughout the world. Finally, a related article addresses the frightening power of "corporate personhood," a legal fiction that underlies the power of large corporations in American public and private life. All in all, the February issue offers food for thought not just on 'what is going on' in American politics today, but also on the structures and cultural shifts that lie just beneath the surface of American politics.
We hope you enjoy our February issue and find the articles informative and provocative. Frequent posting on a variety of topics will continue throughout the month, and we'll see you for our next issue in March.
The way you are now running this site is brilliant. I have always liked the blog format as a whole but I especially enjoy what you are doing with it. By doing an issue per month and using categories to sort information you make it much easier for people to find the content they are looking for.
Keep up the great work guys.
Forgot to mention this in the previous comment.
The premise behind this month's issue on the spiritual left is highly relevant. It reminds me of Obama's remarks at the 2004 Democratic Convention in which he mentioned that "in the blue states we worship an awesome God." There is no reason whatsoever that the political right should have a monopoly on spiritual or moral issues. I believe, as a result of publications like this, more and more people are beginning to make that realization.
I'd like to give J-Ro my support. rock on, brother. This is a very well done site, you all should be proud. I'm unsure of how this all works, legally, but links to other free media sites and independent news sites like FAIR.org would be nice to see also. keep up the good work.
Amici,
Tom Trombones Trombley
Great idea Tom.
Unfortunately, if there are too many links on the side of the page it gets cluttered. Perhaps someone has the time to create a blog entry that just has tons of links to it. It could be updated anytime and just have a link to it on the right side of the index page. Just a thought. If anyone is interested in putting that together I'll get together a decent list of worthwhile links to contribute.
Josh