A Comment About

How The New Republic Got Suckered

August 20, 2007 - 7:45 am
David Thomson
2007-08-20 08:05:58

“There are still folks at the magazine who think it was a good idea and think that we should stay there, including the freaking Editor-in-Chief.”

Marty Peretz now seems like a lonely voice in the wilderness. He is no longer the owner. This very morning TNR posted an article by senior editor John Judis declaring the war on terror to be something of a con job used by George W. Bush to increase his power. On this particular issue, TNR is beginning to sound like the Nation.