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Douglas Carpenter

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16. well yes - that's true - I started reading it when I was high school - 70-73 and it was still quite

Reply to Spider Jerusalem (Reply #15)

Sat Dec 6, 2014, 05:10 AM

Dec 2014

liberal then. I think Peretz cast his lot with the Scoop Jackson/Jeane Kirkpatrick/Max Shachtman 'Social Democrats USA' cult which formed much of the nucleus of the neoconservative movement the incubated such infamous characters as
Elliott Abrams, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz.

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STATEMENT BY FORMER NEW REPUBLIC EDITORS AND WRITERS [View all] Douglas Carpenter Dec 2014 OP

... Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #1

Boy, the fact that you guys didn't resign under Peretz jeff47 Dec 2014 #2

…and so why don't you elucidate why these individuals PCIntern Dec 2014 #5

whether or not they should have resigned under Peretz --- he may have been slightly less racist than Douglas Carpenter Dec 2014 #6

Wow. Stunned. n/t SylviaD Dec 2014 #10

rather shocking isn't it. I mean all these liberal luminaries working on a magazine with someone Douglas Carpenter Dec 2014 #17

It's disgusting. n/t SylviaD Dec 2014 #19

Thank you. Nt PCIntern Dec 2014 #12

That is pretty rich coming from vox. AngryAmish Dec 2014 #18

Stunning. And utterly devastating. nt RiverLover Dec 2014 #3

As soon as they took it over, I knew this would happen. n/t Triana Dec 2014 #4

Yep SickOfTheOnePct Dec 2014 #11

Good journalism continues to freefall in America Oilwellian Dec 2014 #7

*Reagan Democrat HQ* is gonna move further right? they're gonna be even *more* Eustonite? MisterP Dec 2014 #8

How convenient... nikto Dec 2014 #9

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

Peretz took over in 1974 Spider Jerusalem Dec 2014 #15

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 think this is important enough for one self-indulgent kick Douglas Carpenter Dec 2014 #20

Boy, do I hate tech company assholes. alarimer Dec 2014 #21

deserves another kick, I think Douglas Carpenter Dec 2014 #22

The DLC of magazines Arugula Latte Dec 2014 #23

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