9. Boredom factor that creeps into magazine comes form it sometimes avoiding picking fights out of desire for moderation & balance.
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10. As an example, magazine did a profile of late Richard John Neuhaus, Canadian born theocratic thinker who had big impact on USA right
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11. Neuhaus hugely controversial figure: called for "regime change" in USA, a theocrat. Norman Podhoretz thought he was too right wing.
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12. Walrus profile didn't give any sense of how contentious a figure Neuhaus was. It was real whitewash.
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15. Also: good magazines almost always have some ideological or philosophical tension in them: think of Partisan Review in 1940s
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16. More recent example is New Republic in 1980s where there was productive tension between
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