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Article: The New Republic at seventy. (70th anniversary)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 28, 1984
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THE NEW REPUBLIC now celebrates its seventieth anniversary. While it has had its vicissitudes over the years it has always been an important cultural barometer, and at the present time it is one of the most interesting magazines in the United States.
A magazine often draws energy and power from contradiction. Partisan Review, in its creative period, struggled to synthesize aesthetic modernism with Marxism-- an ultimately impossible task, but one generative of thought over an important span of years. The New Republic has had a variegated history, with which it endeavors--with honesty and honor--to come to terms in its seventieth-anniversary issue, a history ...