#4 ‘The Archive’: When Max Weber curated a new social science newsletter in 1904 this is what he wrote

When a journal dealing with questions of social science, and especially with social policy, makes its appearance in this country, or new editors take over, the first question with which it is greeted usually concerns its “tendency”. We, too, have to furnish an answer to this question, and in this essay we want to go into it in a more fundamental way, fu…