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. So, magazine has a checkered history which it has been trying, imperfectly, to come to terms with.
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22. On the issue of whether changes pushed by Chris Hughes are good for magazine, I've tried to stay agnostic till more evidence in.
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23. But the mass resignation of the mast-head doesn't bode well, to say the least.
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24. Ezra Klein usefully framed New Republic's future in terms of convergence/divergence:http://www.vox.com/2014/12/4/7337491/new-republic-changes …
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25. TNR has always been a very niche-magazine: ultra-divergence in the current lingo.
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26. I mean, a magazine that supports the Democratic party, the Contras, Charles Murray and gay rights. That's a narrow demographic.
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27. In some ways, the internet allows ultra-niche-y publications to flourish. This very twitter feed is one example.
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