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TNR: The Long Goodbye

A once-liberal magazine finally decides it hates them. 

Eric Alterman

January 27, 1997

In 1997, Eric Alterman dissected how Marty Peretz had already turned “The Liberal New Republic” into “a magazine that is not simply neoconservative but one whose energies are devoted to attacking the principles that had defined it for most of its past eight decades, along with the people who continue to hold them.” Download the full PDF of Alterman's article here

Eric AltermanTwitterFormer Nation media columnist Eric Alterman is a CUNY distinguished professor of English at Brooklyn College, and the author of 12 books, including We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel, recently published by Basic Books.


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