2. The thing with the New Republic is that there are a set of competing arguments which get tangled up -- just like a bad family dinner.
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3. One argument is about New Republic's checkered history (Bell Curve, Glass, Israel, white-maleness of staff)
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4. A separate argument is about what Hughes is doing to the New Republic and what that bodes for magazine publishing as a whole.
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5. For sake of clarity, it's important to keep those two arguments separate. You could hate what TNR was & still be wary of Hughes' plans
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6. So: the first argument is about TNR's often contentious political history, with lots of focus on badness of Andrew Sullivan's tenure
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7. The political anger at New Republic itself has several different dimensions: substantive disagreements but also demographics behind them
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8. Substantially: TNR at worst published scientific racism (and racism in general) was contemptuous of Arabs, and cold towards feminism.
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9. Demographically, TNR has from its earlierst Croly & Lippmann days drawn from narrow pool: Ivy League (usually Harvard) white men.
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10. The demographic problem and the political problem are linked: as Democratic party became more diverse, TNR lagged behind.
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11. Over last 30 years, TNR has been voice of those elements of Dem. party who are most conservative (except, selectively, on social issues)
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12. Larger question is how does a magazine make amends for terrible history, something that is not unique to New Republic.
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13. TNR & the Nation's 1930s/1940s Stalinism, National Review's racism and philio-fascism, Atlantic Monthy's racism, etc. How to deal?
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14. As a friend reminded me, long before TNR's Bell Curve issue, in 1970s Atlantic Monthly published Richard Herrnstein.
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