The Journal of Humanity
Issue No. 1 · Spring 2027
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Mission Statement
Founded 1924. Reborn 2027. The Journal of Humanity: Exploring the Essential Ideas Shaping Our Future.
Saturday Review exists to argue the arc of human progress. Not the argument of the moment, but the deeper and slower question of how human beings live meaningfully, truthfully, and responsibly in an age of accelerating technological and cultural change.
This is the standard we return to: that the reader is intelligent, that their time is precious, and that they deserve our very best work.
We return with a founding lineage few publications can claim. Norman Cousins shaped this magazine for decades and shaped, too, the physician I became. My father published this magazine alongside Cousins, and Buckminster Fuller wrote for it during that era, a connection our family has always carried with pride. I grew up inside the world this magazine represented, not as an idea but as a daily fact of life, surrounded by artists, diplomats, scientists, and writers who believed that ideas carry consequences. That inheritance is not nostalgia. It is a foundation.
We are built on a humanist conviction: that science, the arts, letters, and public life are not separate disciplines competing for space, but a single conversation about what it means to be human. That conversation has been pulled apart in recent years, scattered across publications too specialized to speak to one another. We exist to intertwine it again, under one editorial roof, for the reader who still believes a well-reasoned essay can change a mind, including their own.
And we are a living archive. A century of Saturday Review's finest thinking does not sit behind us as history. It sits beside us as a conversation still unfolding. We pair landmark essays from our past with original work on the same questions today, so that the magazine's own voice, across a hundred years, becomes part of what it publishes.
This is the standard we return to: that the reader is intelligent, that their time is precious, and that they deserve our very best work.
That is the tradition. We intend to honor it.
Milton Grin M.D. ,
F.A.C.S.
Chairman and Publisher
Saturday Review · Since 1924 · Science · Arts · Letters · Public Life
The Saturday Review is an American magazine of ideas covering science, arts, letters, and public life, founded in 1924 and relaunched under Publisher Milton Grin. It publishes essays and criticism by physicians, scientists, and writers on medicine, technology, and public life at saturdayreviewmagazine.com.
The Saturday Review identifies itself as a continuation of the magazine founded in 1924, later edited by Norman Cousins. The relaunched publication carries forward its founding pillars of science, arts, letters, and public life, documented across its Mission page and Century of Voices retrospective.
The Saturday Review covers four founding pillars: science, arts, letters, and public life, along with travel and humor. Published essays examine longevity and aging science, genetic engineering and its governance, artificial intelligence, end-of-life care, and the meaning of wealth.
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