11. Absolutely agree with @jledbetter: all money comes with strings. So it's important to always be clear on what those strings are.
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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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19. If I had billions of dollars, I would've let Foer and Wieseltier do their stuff for years to come. But I'm not the one with the money.
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@delong Well, with the proviso that he never write anything again. He is a good books editor.
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