The Antioch Review was founded in 1940 by small group of
Antioch College faculty with the goal of creating a platform for "the voice of liberalism in a world facing the forces of fascism and communism." The first publication was released in 1941. In its early years, it was edited by collective, among whom were Paul Bixler and George Geiger, and later
Paul Rohmann. While its pages have been populated by innumerous academics,
The Antioch Review does not publish footnotes, thus their contributions have been largely non- (rather than anti-) academic and journalistic in nature. Among the magazine's notable contributions, it published an article by
Robert K. Merton in 1948 that introduced the world to the concept of the "
self-fulfilling prophecy." Dr. Robert S. (Bob) Fogarty, who joined the Antioch faculty in 1968 and was editor of The Antioch Review from 1977 to 2021, received the
PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing in 2003. The college subsequently said that because of the college's financial challenges, the publication was being put on hiatus after the Winter 2020 issue, which saw delayed publication during the Summer of 2020, while the college explored options. He died two months later. As of the Fall of 2025, the publication was still on hiatus, although the Antioch website at one point had promised a Fall 2024 relaunch. ==See also==