I have been reading it for years now without noticing a shift you describe. But since I am not from the US I get only a limited access (no .pdf version for me) so maybe that explains it. In any case I still see Buchanan writing for their blog.
Are we talking strictly libertarian periodicals here? Because a guilty pleasure of mine has been the occasional read of The Rolling Stone.
FYI, I started a thread similar to this on newspapers.
Incidentally, The Economist considers itself a “newspaper” and not a magazine. A weekly newspaper printed on glossy paper and folded like a book, I guess. I used to read it all the time, but I slowed down a bit when I too noticed they’ve turned more leftist and statist lately despite proclaiming their love of “capitalism.”
I’m curious, why do some of you not like Reason? Too watered down? I haven’t read much from them so I don’t know.
I really like the economist. It covers a lot of topics in an in-depth, and indeed economic manner.
Also, SM, it’s not very helpful to ask questions of the posters of a two year dead thread
@ Neodoxy
I know. It’s just that some of the most interesting threads happen to be some of the oldest. What I really have in mind whenever I post questions is that others will take notice of the thread and respond.
Well I used to read a lot of newspapers/magazines
Among them FAZ, Handelsblatt, NZZ, Spiegel, eigentümlich frei. Anyway I stopped with those some days ago. The best of them still was/is eigentümlich frei. It’s close to liberal but with some heavy bias towards christianity. I’m a bit beyond that and have my serious doubts about it.
The problem with German newspapers is that it seems there are not many opintions left. Wel here and there a comment differs a bit, but the base is Government is good and Fiat-money is the best since sliced bread. We have a new religion here in Germany we pray for and to mother nature. The greens are the foreprayers of it. And so I learn in any newspaper, men is evil and the climat is waming or so.
Anyway I still read a few magazines.
Motorrad (irregular), Tourenfahrer, c’t, iX, a magazine about the waste industry, schweizer Monat. Well that are special magazines outside the realm of politics
Unfortunatly in whole Germany there is IMHO not one newspaper that one could recommend. So what is left is going to here and/or the mises.de, or some Blogs to get at least something which can be a different political opinion.
I don’t knwo if a liberal newspaper may have any chance here in Germany. I guess if it’s true that support for Obama exceeds 90 % of the Germans population, the sad answer is. We have not many liberal/libertarians left. Well I guess that’s nothing new in Germany, but may be a new experience in the US…
Oh yeah I forgot, whenever I can get my hands on an issue: Top Gear.
Hell yea.
I like to read Locksmith’s Weekly.
Playboy & Nuts.
The Onion.
None right now but I might go for online versions of IBD. I don’t really read magazines much.
Why is it that there are so many liberal/progressive magazines and so little libertarian magazines?
Because there are so many liberals and so few libertarians. 
Gotta cater to your audience.
I’ve been thinking about seeing what it takes to start up a magazine. I’ve had this idea for a “Rolling Stone/Playboy for Libertarians” running around in my mind.
“Why is it that there are so many liberal/progressive magazines and so little libertarian magazines?”
I guess you are talking about liberal in the amercan sense. I could hardly name one “liberal” magazin in the “von Mises liberal sense”.
Most of the time, nothing. I do, infrequently, get the urge to read a magazine… but I walk into the store, read the headlines and just rage. Not going to putting down my hard-earned moneys for that kind of torture.
HOWEVER, when I fly, I often buy a copy of Forbes. Although the magazine is somewhat statist… Steve Forbes isn’t that bad of a guy (often appearing along side Tom Woods… and they’re not completely at ends), so I don’t mind tolerating his magazine. Plus, 500 lists are always interesting, and their “investor advice” column is always a laugh… did you know that house prices have bottomed out , and due to upswing any time now? They really mean “any time”… because they’ve been saying it for atleast two years.