National Review without the goo.

American Spectator is THE true conservative magazine. While National Review has bogged itself down in authoritarianism & rancid religion, American Spectator has gone beyond this. Now, American Spectator is a Right-leaning magazine, which means it generally follows the truism 'that which is not hard Right-wing moves eventually to the Left'; however, the magazine would not be in business, would have no customers on the Right, if it did not hew to the non-equivocating Rightist line. I am not damning The Spectator with faint praise here, for even though I am a far Leftist, I wouldn't know much about the real world if it wasn't for Right-wing magazine- I wouldn't know, for instance, of the potent realism of the Founding Fathers, who were the liberals & radicals of their day.
Left-wing periodicals are, paradoxically, more faith-oriented that Right-wing counterparts, for they hold out the hope that man is evolving-- whereas Rightists' skepticism & cynicism are powerful reality checks for the naive or chronically over-optimistic.
The only serious complaint I have about The Spectator is that is sometimes indulges too much in in-jokes and buzz-words, which means I have to translate the words into my own progressive-speak; but that is a good exercise. There have been so many good articles in The Spectator that I do not know where to begin to choose an example.
Unfortunately, The Spectator is only published semi-annually. I have no doubt that The Spectator would replace National Review as the premier conservative magazine if The Spectator were published more frequently.
The only other magazine I would heartily recommend is 'Reason', a libertarian free market ("free minds, free markets") journal.