1. I don't want to get caught in quibbles but @JohnMcWhorter misunderstands an argument I made about TNR: http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/35237?in=00:18&out=08:24 …
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2. McWhorter seems to think I was arguing that TNR should not have published conservative leaning blacks like him, Loury, Shelby Steele, etc
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3. But my argument here was a little bit different: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120884/new-republics-legacy-race …
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4. What I wrote was that for most of its history TNR published a spectrum of black voices ranging from BT Washington to WEB Du Bois & beyond
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5. The problem with Peretz-era TNR was that it presented a much narrower cohort of black intellectuals.
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6. I have no problem with TNR publishing Loury, etc. But I also thought magazine should publish, say, Toni Morrison or Nell Painter,
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7. Apologies to @JohnHMcWhorter for tagging him incorrectly in this piece.
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