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Article: The New Republic Reader: Eighty Years of Opinion and Debate.
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- National Review
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- September 12, 1994
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WE ENGLISH think of your magazine The New Republic as the American equivalent of our own lefty New Statesman. Confronted by a fat anthology of New Republic wit and wisdom, we would expect to find in it many of the characteristic pungent and unappetizing ingredients of New Statesmanship and New Statecraft. What are these? To list a few at random:
Much "liberalism" in the decadent American (and now British) sense, i.e., much socialism (which Paul Johnson has called the anti-Semitism of intellectuals as anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools); much willing of ends but not of means; much endorsement of bad means for good ends, or for bad ends or for no ends, for ...