"The further left has always had its share of counter-establishment institutions. The Nation, after all, is one of the oldest magazines in the country, and some academic disciplines have long been at the forefront of leftist thought. But the left, too, has of late succeeded in building a more cohesive network of fighting institutions; as universities have become much more progressive, movements like the Democratic Socialists of America have awakened from decades of peaceful slumber, and publications like Jacobin have infused the movement with fresh intellectual energy.

Five or ten years ago, our potted history might have concluded here. Ideological movements from conservative to libertarian to leftist had fighting institutions of their own. Though philosophical liberals did not have a comparable home, they could confidently express their views within mainstream institutions.

But then those institutions started to change."

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Persuasion is not a leftist publication, it's a liberal one. So you'd expect to see articles in it arguing against the left, and not articles defending the left. It's also not intended to give "all sides" of opinion, but rather be a liberal complement to established partisan leftist, libertarian, conservative publications, etc.

Sure it's "right" compared to leftist publications, but that's true of literally every opinion publication that isn't leftist. It's weird how you're putting everything into two buckets of "left" versus "right wing."