This by @zackbeauchamp is good and important, and connects what's going on in the realm of ideas to what's going on in the world, but I can't help but harrumph a bit at the idea that Pinker, Gopnik, and Lilla are liberalism's available defenders.https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/1171040388146237442?s=20 …
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In the late 2000s sometime, I spent a couple of days casually researching the average ages of NYRB contributors. Those I could find data for in an issue from the first year of publication were clumped around mid-40s. The distribution for mid-2000s issue peaked at mid-seventies.
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This is one reason I'm excited for the new editorial regime there.
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The plausible causal factor from casual empirical observation being that the contributor pool had little turnover, and had aged along with the magazine.
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Once an editor finds a good, reliable writer, they tend to stick with them because 1) you always need to meet deadlines & 2) assigning to a new writer is always a risk (can't be sure if they are up to the task). This probably slows down pace of cultural change.
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Yeah. That's why editorial turnover is important. Otherwise, publications tend to ossify around the editors' networks, and I suspect it gets worse as they age, because most people tend to shift from network building to network maintenance in middle age.
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