1. Scientific racism didn't start with Bell Curve. already existed when first issue of New Republic published in 1914.
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2. What's interesting is to contrast how New Republic of 1914-1930 dealt with scientific racism as against later magazine.
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3. I haven't read all the early TNR yet, but it's striking that they did take swipes at scientific racism.
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4. Here is Walter Lippmann in 1922 New Republic pointing out limits of IQ tests: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5172/
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5. Earlier TNR also published W.E.B. Du Bois. Striking how different it was from Peretzian TNR.
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6. Not to say early TNR was without flaws. But in context of early 20th century America it was a brave and often radical magazine.
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7. If Andrew Sullivan edited TNR in 1916, he might have excerpted Madison Grant's "Passing of the Great Race" (and forced rebuttal).
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8. "It’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be — will be utterly submerged."
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9. "It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.”
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