20. Neo-cons like McConnell, Midge Decter, & Michael Ledeen had access to TNR through back-channel: Martin Peretz.
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21. If neo-cons had article they wanted to impress on a national audience of Dems, they'd send it to Peretz, who'd foist it on magazine.
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22. The neo-con back-channel that McConnell describes provides a crucial insight into the infamous Bell Curve issue of TNR.
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23. In 1980s, Peretz's impulse to push neo-con ideas got blunted by editors, particularly Hertzberg.
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24. But in Andrew Sullivan, Peretz finally found a compliant editor who shared basically conservative outlook.
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25. For purposes of Murray and AEI, it wasn't sufficient that he publish just in Commentary or National Review.
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26. Murray and his wealthy sponsors wanted him to be seen as a legitimate public intellectual with national reach -- i.e. published in TNR
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27. With the Bell Curve, the entire staff of The New Republic was opposed to publishing. Only Sullivan and Peretz wanted to publish it.
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28. Sullivan & Peretz had final say & Bell Curve published in TNR. The neo-con front stronger than ostensibly liberal soul of magazine.
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29. Murray is not your cranky uncle tweeting crackpot thoughts on rape & blacks. He's someone paid millions over the years for his "ideas"
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30. The spread of Murray's "ideas" takes lavish promotional infrastructure. Columnists like George Will given $$ to attend Murray seminars
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31. The New Republic has to be seen as part of infrastructure that has made Charles Murray a prominent figure in American intellectual life
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