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STATEMENT BY FORMER NEW REPUBLIC EDITORS AND WRITERS
Published on Robert Reich's Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/RBReich?fref=nf
As former editors and writers for The New Republic, we write to express our dismay and sorrow at its destruction in all but name.
From its founding in 1914, The New Republic has been the flagship and forum of American liberalism. Its reporting and commentary on politics, society, and arts and letters have nurtured a broad liberal spirit in our national life.
The magazines present owner and managers claim they are giving it new relevance while remaining true to its century-old mission. Instead, they seem determined to strip it of the intellectual, literary, and political commitments that have been its essence and meaning. Their pronouncements suggest that they hold those commitments in contempt.
The New Republic cannot be merely a brand. It has never been and cannot be a media company that markets content. Its essays, criticism, reportage, and poetry are not product. It is not, or not primarily, a business. It is a voice, even a cause. It has lasted through numerous transformations of the media landscapetransformations that, far from rendering its work obsolete, have made that work ever more valuable.
The New Republic is a kind of public trust. That is something all its previous owners and publishers understood and respected. The legacy has now been trashed, the trust violated.
It is a sad irony that at this perilous moment, with a reactionary variant of conservatism in the ascendancy, liberalisms central journal should be scuttled with flagrant and frivolous abandon. The promise of American life has been dealt a lamentable blow.
Peter Beinart (Editor)
Sidney Blumenthal (Senior editor)
Jonathan Chait (Senior editor)
David Grann (Senior editor)
David Greenberg (Acting editor)
Hendrik Hertzberg (Editor)
Ann Hulbert (Senior editor)
Robert Kuttner (Economics editor)
Robert B. Reich (Contributing editor)
Jeffrey Rosen (Legal editor)
Peter Scoblic (Executive editor)
Evan Smith (Deputy editor)
Joan Stapleton Tooley (Publisher)
Paul Starr (Contributing editor)
Ronald Steel (Contributing editor)
Andrew Sullivan (Editor)
Margaret Talbot (Deputy editor)
Dorothy Wickenden (Executive editor)
Sean Wilentz (Contributing editor)
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whether or not they should have resigned under Peretz --- he may have been slightly less racist than
Douglas Carpenter
Dec 2014
#6
rather shocking isn't it. I mean all these liberal luminaries working on a magazine with someone
Douglas Carpenter
Dec 2014
#17
*Reagan Democrat HQ* is gonna move further right? they're gonna be even *more* Eustonite?
MisterP
Dec 2014
#8
I've always found the New Republic to be fairly right-wing for a supposedly "liberal" magazine.
Spider Jerusalem
Dec 2014
#13
it went that way under Marty Peretz - pre-Paretz its politics were fairly similar to the Nation
Douglas Carpenter
Dec 2014
#14
well yes - that's true - I started reading it when I was high school - 70-73 and it was still quite
Douglas Carpenter
Dec 2014
#16
i'm not sure I would say that - I think that under Peretz its tone was more New Deal liberal but
Douglas Carpenter
Dec 2014
#24