> What is the political orientation of TNR
> exactly? Given the stuff they push on Plastic.com, I've concluded that
> they are buddies with David Horowitz or something.
Well, the TNR crowd are not as insane as DH (whose mental breakdown continues apace over at frontpage, an astounding thing to watch), though there are points of convergence, Israel being one. TNR backs Israeli violence to the hilt, and editor Marty Peretz likes to occasionally pen a racist piece about how barbaric the Palestinians are (its genetic, cultural, etc.). TNR began in the '10s as a liberal mag (Walter Lippmann and Randolph Bourne were two early contributors), morphed into a hard left organ in the '30s (much more so than The Nation), and in the '50s and '60s took general liberal/left positions on nuclear weapons, civil rights and Vietnam. In the mid-'70s Peretz, who'd dabbled in left politics during the '60s (and contributed to Ramparts), use some of his wife's Singer inheritance money to buy TNR. From there the drift rightward began, and by the mid-80s TNR was supporting contra aid (though did allow dissenting articles to appear, the best being Jefferson Morley's profile of former contra commander Edgar Chamorro), the bombing of Libya, aid to the Afghan "freedom fighters" -- indeed the entire "Reagan Doctrine" as it was called by TNR writer Charles Krauthammer -- rollbacks on affirmative action and welfare, and, well you get the rest.
> So let the right wing and the neoliberals continue their fixation on
> college campus activism. As usual, they are yelling at a little dog when
> a bigger one is about the bite them on the ass.
Now this I like!
DP