Sullivan: “The Economist”: Not so groovy
Yet as a weekly compost of world news and economics, it’s hard to beat – a kind of Reader’s Digest for the upper classes.
.. The editor, deputy editor, and New York editor, plus a handful of other former and current staffers, didn’t only all go to Oxford but to the same college – Magdalen. In fact, in the last contest for the editorship, four out of five candidates went to the hallowed college.