I subscribed to The American Scholar for a couple of decades. I dropped it immediately when Epstein was fired and replaced by an editor who had "a more diverse Rolodex." Looks like my judgment of the situation was exactly correct.



What a shame. Under Epstein, it published articles that you wouldn't see anywhere else. I remember:



An article by a divorce lawyer who pioneered the technique of using custody challenges to frighten the wife into accepting low alimony and child support. As a newly appointed judge, the lawyer was proposing the tactic be barred.



An article on how D-Day, "the biggest breaking news story in history," changed the news business. It gave us superstar anchormen, and news bites, for instance.



An article on how the _reductio ad absurdum_ of liberal thought, presented in Lionel Trilling's 1940s novel "The Middle of the Journey" had become reality in the 1980s.



An article on how the Supreme Court's Miranda ruling backfired. Intended to eliminate confessions, street-level cops outsmarted the nine justices and used it to get more confessions to stand up. (As long as you read 'em their rights, you can use any trick you want to get 'em to sign.)