Like this? BTW, I was born in February 1960.
And now the last grownups just turned out the lights.
The techies and the progressive cultists are now in charge.
The New Republic now joins those other bastions of thinking, literate liberalism - the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harpers - on the ash heap of history.
RIP.
Did they really throw him from a window?
I've seen that word maybe 3 times since I learned it back in high school by reading slavic 'literature'.
/johnny
This is sort of sad. It’s a signature American periodical.
Like this? BTW, I was born in February 1960.
Soviet agent Michael Straight was publisher of The New Republic in the 1940’s and 1950’s. He recruited Henry Wallace as Editor before Wallace ran for President in 1948 on a Stalinist platform.
Someone on our side of the aisle should buy it.
Chris Hughes – aged 30, American entrepreneur who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg (raised Jewish but now an avowed atheist and CEO of Facebook), Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin.
APR 2009 How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign
At age 25 he became the coordinator of online organizing for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign on My.BarackObama.com, the campaign's online social networking website. Many political pundits attribute BHO’s victory to Hughes by his unleashing of BHO’s voter base over the internet and thereby changing politics and marketing forever.
In MAR 2012, he purchased a majority stake in The New Republic magazine – the flagship political journal of liberal thought in the U.S. for 98 years. He is now the publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine at age 30. The previous editor-in-chief, Martin Peretz, who served from 1974 until 2011, wrote in FEB 2013 that, “The New Republic has abandoned its liberal but heterodox tradition and embraced a leftist outlook as predictable as that of Mother Jones or The Nation."
July 1, 2012 - Chris Hughes (aged 28) and Sean Eldridge (aged 25) were married at their home in Garrison, N.Y. William J. Corbett, a retired village justice of Floral Park, N.Y., officiated.
2/11/2013 cover of The New Republic
I hadn’t heard before now TNR was going under.
Well.. what a friggin’ shame.
What’s Angela Davis going to do now, with her writing outlet now fallen by the wayside?
They could always bring back Stephen Glass and promote him to editor.
Since December 2000, they really haven't had much of a reason to continue to publish.
I love watch liberals in a fish bowl destroying each other.