About Us

We are frequently asked, “What are you partisans of?”

In its full form, this website and affiliated projects are our provisional attempts at an answer.

In brief, we are partisans of the radical center, aspiring to raise the flag of the late and lamented Partisan Review. We are socially liberal and fiscally conservative, open to conversation but not with those who hate our culture for that very openness. We take seriously Norman Podhoretz’s idea that America is now engaged in World War IV, but are deeply concerned with how the nation is presently executing this war.

Irving Howe when considering the impact of postmodernism pointed back to two generations of small magazines spanning from The Masses to The Noble Savage, The New Republic to Commentary, and looked ahead to declare that “Intellectual life is once again moving outside the universities.” We hope to be foremost amongst a new generation of small magazines that realize this ambition.

We believe that culture is a dynamic process uniting high and vernacular forms and rituals, and that the American idea is an ongoing process of miscegenation. We love the lively arts and America’s city life, jazz and baseball, Krazy Kat and Conrad, Katchor and Lethem, genre films and tabloid newspapers, democracy and liberalism, to offer a very partial list.

We believe that what’s worth saying can most always be made clear in plain English, and eschew the falsely simple, the tendentious and pedantic, the deliberately obscure, the needlessly perverse, the self-mythologizing and the merely ideological.

We believe that gerrymandering is a grave threat to our democracy, which deteriorates without competitive elections and the responsive representatives they generate.

Finally, we do not believe that nostalgia is a synonym for traditionalism, and we do believe that tradition is the only thing separating us from barbarism.


Submissions and Correspondence Guidelines

Pitches or finished essays, articles, or reviews should be sent to submissions@newpartisan.com. All submissions should be on an exclusive basis, with the editors reserving 7 days to consider the piece before it is submitted elsewhere. Please include a short biographical statement and, if possible, two or three clips. We do reply with either an acceptance or a rejection as soon as a decision has been reached. Feel free to include photographs or other art when pertinent. We do not offer size guidelines: Use all the space you need, but no more.

We also accept visual contributions, including photo essays, drawings, paintings, comics, animations, and the like.

We generally do not pay for unsolicited contributions.

Correspondence should be sent to correspondence@newpartisan.com. Please indicate whether or not the contents are intended for publication.








Editorial Staff

Editors

 

 

Salvatore Borriello is from Queens but now resides in Brooklyn. He studied at Queensborough Community College and has a liberal arts BA from Sarah Lawrence College. email

 

 







 

 

Silvia de Miranda was born and raised in New York City. She is not, nor has she ever been, a partisan of the radical center. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, and therefore a bleeding-heart, tree-hugging liberal. She’s just here for the stories and the pictures.  email

 

 









FOUNDING EDITORS

Harry Siegel was born and raised in Brooklyn. After graduating from Brandeis University with a degree in history and European studies, he worked in New York for Michael Meyers, the president of the New York Civil Rights Coalition, a researcher for Sheinkopf Communications, a political consulting firm, and as the OpEd page editor and an editorial writer for The New York Sun. He is the co-editor of McGraw Hill’s Urban Society Annual Edition, the second author with Fred Siegel of