Originally Posted By: TheFallibleFiend
I don't have any subscriptions like that for myself; however, I've had recommendations from other people whose opinions I value:
The Economist
The New Yorker
The Atlantic Monthly

Yes, I'm familiar with those journals and they are very fine. I especially like the New Yorker's pithy style. But when it comes to erudite vocabulary, I don't find the frequency to be as high. All journals have interesting vocabulary and it usually depends on the writer, but it's not altogether uncommon that in just one article of the American Spectator, for example, I can find at least six or more interesting words or usages — or at least interesting to me. I list examples in two articles below:
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12387
The great Talmudic genius...led the rabbinic court
writing of the divorce was proceeding apace
her poor cuckolded husband
which conservative principle would be subverted by such solidarity
has run afoul of free-market orthodoxy
targeted the Republican Party as a generic counterforce
inimical to their cause
being treated as the bogeyman
This type of behavior wreaks havoc with an image of ideological constancy
The company sells widgets to the public
unions emerged from the catalyst of socialism and are still intoxicated by its matrix
with its attendant potential for thuggery
that should eventually ramify to the benefit of the inventors of the product
They are not acting like royalty, only scrounging for royalties

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12398
the Republican Party is dredging up the specter of "HillaryCare"
the stillborn beast Clinton unveiled
government can harness private-sector competition
Give Hillary credit for her political wiles.
she is positioned to hoist Republicans by their own petard.
regulations that hobble the health-care industry
ill-conceived tax laws
And they've unwittingly created a monster
these principles cannot be engineered by a government bureaucracy.
Any program that codifies health care as a public good
To prevent this bureaucratic Rube Goldberg machine from collapsing, legislators invariably resort to price controls,
a market mired in bureaucracy
Piecemeal government interventions into the market...must be dismantled

Does anyone else know of other journals that are similarly filled with interesting words and usages?

Last edited by jotham; 12/07/07 04:50 PM.