The Frankfurt journal shifted to themed issues after the mass-communication special

Evidence

43 Friedrich Pollock, `State Capitalism: Its Possibilities and Limitations’, SPSS, 9 (1941), pp. 200-25; repr. in Arato and Gebhardt (eds), The Essential Frankfurt School Reader, pp. 71-94. From the second English-language issue of the journal onwards, which had been a special issue on mass communication, each issue was to have a special theme. For autumn 1941, an issue on bureaucracy was planned, for spring 1942 an issue on methodology, and for the summer one on public opinion. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 3333

Categorization

• QUESTION: Was the switch to themed issues a response to the war, resource constraints, or an editorial strategy shift by Horkheimer? Worth checking.
• XREF: connects to: The exiled Institute restructured its journal around thematic special issues — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 3333