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Article: Liberalism's flagship adrift at sea. (decline of liberal magazine 'The New Republic')
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- The Washington Monthly
- Article date:
- December 1, 1997
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For the past eight decades, The New Republic has considered itself the foremost political journal of left-leaning intellectual thought. And, at various times during that period, a not insubstantial portion of the Washington establishment has agreed. But for the past several years, TNR has been falling apart. It has lost its mandate, its vision, and numerous editors. It has become smug and cynical -- the embodiment of much that is wrong with political journalism today.
In the most recent chapter of The New Republic's saga, this fall, editor Michael Kelly was unceremoniously canned, becoming the magazine's fourth editor in the past eight years to exit the scene. ...