What RSS feeds does City Journal offer?

City Journal in Print. This RSS feed will send you headlines from the most recent print edition of City Journal. The feed is therefore updated once a quarter.

Eye on the News. Our writers don’t limit themselves to quarterly observations. To read their timely responses to breaking news, use this RSS feed—which is updated regularly, and therefore similar to the feeds used by bloggers.

Podcasts. Listen to City Journal’s writers discuss their stories.

All of this material is also available on our home page.

What is RSS?

RSS, which stands for “Really Simple Syndication,” is a format that allows readers access to many different sources of information, all from one convenient location. Let’s say you regularly check ten different websites for news, another ten for commentary, three more for baseball updates, and two for movie reviews. Wouldn’t it be easier if all the clickable headlines from those websites could be shuttled to a single place—for you to read, or not, at your convenience?

That’s what an RSS feed allows you to do. Any information—provided that it’s in RSS format—can be automatically sent to a program called an “aggregator” (some popular aggregators are My Yahoo!, Bloglines, and SharpReader, for example). Then, instead of visiting dozens of different websites, you can browse headlines on the aggregator and choose the ones you're interested in.

How do I set my aggregator to collect a City Journal RSS feed?

Aggregators work in different ways, so we’d advise you to check the information offered by yours. Often you’ll gain access to an RSS feed by right-clicking on the RSS button (like the ones above), selecting “Copy Shortcut,” and then pasting that shortcut into a space provided by your aggregator.