The Atlantic should fire all their writers, and then fire David Frum twice.
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Another echo of the rise of the Christian Right in the 80s? I'd have to think about that for a bit.
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Is it really going up? They've been trying this control for a while. I don't think the Atlantic would have hired KDW at all a few years ago.
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One argument in the air a lot that I've never seen before: "When is National Review/other right-wing outlet going to start hiring Marxists?" This rests on an assertion that the Atlantic and similar outlets are explicitly of the Left.
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That used to be a right-wing claim!
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I've noticed that too. But I think in part it's prompted by several prominent conservative hires at e.g. NYT, that *haven't* been walked back. Essentially they're willing to go out further on that limb when they think they're losing.
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"more explicitly asserting (and exercising) control over soft spaces" They're being forced to act in areas where their power used to be implicit.
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Sure, I'll agree about that. In the original comment I read a connotation that those "soft spaces" are, as a result, actually becoming more left-wing, which may have been a mistake on my part.
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