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=12387The 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 counterforceinimical to their cause
being treated as the
bogeymanThis type of behavior
wreaks havoc with an image of ideological
constancyThe company sells
widgets to the public
unions emerged from the
catalyst of socialism and are still intoxicated by its
matrixwith 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=12398the 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?