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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15. As a rule of thumb, I'm willing to overlook a magazine's terrible past if they've made a good faith effort to come to terms with it.
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16. National Review has never in any serious way tried to come to terms with its history of racism or filio-fascism.
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17. Nation & New Republic by contrast have grappled with past Stalinism as well as other issues.
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18. On Israel/Palestine, former New Republic staffers now often voice of reason: Judis, Beinart and (with many provisos) Sullivan.
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19. On the gender front, TNR has markedly improved in recent years, among other things giving column to excellent
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20. On race, I don't think TNR has ever quite come to terms with the real poison of the Peretz years.
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21. And beyond policy positions, the general white-maleness of the magazine has been changing but very slowly.
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