6. If you took Martin Peretz's money, you have to turn a blind eye to his various bigotries (or worse, service them).
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7. If you take John R. MacArthur's money, you have to work with his digital media framework.
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8. If you take Charles Foster Kane's money, you better be ready to praise his wife's singing.
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@jledbetter All money comes with strings attached. Hard to make a universal rule as to which strings are the worst.1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes -
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11. Absolutely agree with
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12. On the Hughes & New Republic front, some guarded optimism might be in order.
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13. The New Republic, which I've been reading for one third of its history, has a checkered history, with moments of distinction & shame.
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14. Under Peretz, TNR published great & interesting articles but also, as
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15. In any case, Peretz's fortune is much diminished, niche TNR had in American liberalism itself has shifted, along with media environment
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16. The idea that TNR has to be digital media company is not, in and of itself, an absurd one. Digital is where most of us read these days.
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17. My conflicted feelings on all this is I thought
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18. And Wieseltier, despite his personal and ideological similarities to Sideshow Bob, knew how to run a book section.
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