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'''''Ramparts''''' was an [[United States|American]] political and literary magazine, published from 1962 through 1975.
==Influence==
Several former staffers went on to found their own magazines, most notably ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' and ''[[Rolling Stone]].'' Robert Scheer later became a featured columnist in the [[Los Angeles Times]] and is now the editor of [[Truthdig]] and a regular participant in the [[NPR]] program ''Left, Right and Center''. Another ''Ramparts'' editor, [[James Ridgeway]], is a senior correspondent in the Washington DC bureau of ''Mother Jones'' and the author of many muckraking books. [[James F. Colaianni]] went on to represent the radical Catholic perspective with the books ''Married Priests & Married Nuns'' and ''The Catholic Left.'' Two editors, [[David Horowitz (conservative writer)|David Horowitz]] and [[Peter Collier (political author)|Peter Collier]], later underwent political conversions and became [[Neoconservatism (United States)|neoconservative]] critics of the left. For a brief time, the magazine's Washington correspondent was [[Brit Hume]], now of the [[Fox News Channel]].
The magazine also featured discussions of arts and culture. It included contributions from (or interviews with) [[Thomas Merton]], [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Kurt Vonnegut]], [[Ken Kesey]], [[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]], [[Gabriel García Márquez]], [[Susan Sontag]], [[Eduardo Galeano]], [[Peter Ustinov]], [[Erica Jong]], and [[John Lennon]].
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'''''Ramparts''''' was an [[United States|American]] political and literary magazine, published from 1962 through 1975.
==Influence==
Several former staffers went on to found their own magazines, most notably ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' and ''[[Rolling Stone]].'' Robert Scheer later became a featured columnist in the [[Los Angeles Times]] and is now the editor of [[Truthdig]] and a regular participant in the [[NPR]] program ''Left, Right and Center''. Another ''Ramparts'' editor, [[James Ridgeway]], is a senior correspondent in the Washington DC bureau of ''Mother Jones'' and the author of many muckraking books. [[James F. Colaianni]] went on to represent the radical Catholic perspective with the books ''Married Priests & Married Nuns'' and ''The Catholic Left.'' Two editors, [[David Horowitz (conservative writer)|David Horowitz]] and [[Peter Collier (political author)|Peter Collier]], later underwent political conversions and became [[Neoconservatism (United States)|neoconservative]] critics of the left. For a brief time, the magazine's Washington correspondent was [[Brit Hume]], now of the [[Fox News Channel]].
The magazine also featured discussions of arts and culture. It included contributions from (or interviews with) [[Thomas Merton]], [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Kurt Vonnegut]], [[Ken Kesey]], [[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]], [[Gabriel García Márquez]], [[Susan Sontag]], [[Eduardo Galeano]], [[Peter Ustinov]], [[Erica Jong]], and [[John Lennon]].
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