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Article: TNR: the long goodbye.(The New Republic magazine)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- January 27, 1997
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After more than two decades of trying, Marty Peretz has finally murdered "The Liberal New Republic." In its place, he has birthed a magazine that is not simply neoconservative but one whose energies are devoted to attacking the principles that had defined it for most of its past eight decades, along with the people who continue to hold them. What does it mean when a magazine that has, historically, been one of America's most venerable liberal publications decides it hates liberals?
The coffin lid closed when Peretz hired New Yorker reporter Michael Kelly to be editor, a post Kelly assumed following the presidential election. Listen to Kelly's inaugural "TRB" ...
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