politics
Independent leftist magazine founded, edited, and largely written by Dwight Macdonald from 1944 through 1949 — an anti-Stalinist, anti-war, democratic-socialist alternative to Partisan Review. Its final issue (volume 6, winter 1949) carries Macdonald's report "The Waldorf Conference" (49.1), quoting Mailer's March 1949 floor remarks.
politics (the lowercase styling was Macdonald’s own — Lennon notes [sic] in the 49.1 citation) ran as a monthly in its early years and as a quarterly from 1946. The journal covered the Holocaust, U.S. war aims, decolonization, and the early postwar reorganization of the international left, with writers including Nicola Chiaromonte, C. Wright Mills, Simone Weil (posthumously), Bruno Bettelheim, Mary McCarthy, and Macdonald himself.
The Winter 1949 issue carried Macdonald’s report on the 25–27 March Waldorf Conference, quoting Mailer’s floor remarks; it was the journal’s final number. Macdonald would continue as a freelance critic and in 1951 joined The New Yorker staff.
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