[lbo-talk] New Republic

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Fri Oct 2 10:28:12 PDT 2009



> Way before! That's the era when my father-in-law worked there too. And
> Ralph Nader walked in off the street with his stuff about auto safety.
>
> Doug

For a time, TNR was to the left of The Nation. Then Peretz used his rich wife's money to cleanse the mag of radical taint. (I believe this was also a reaction to Peretz's experience with Ramparts, which he thought was anti-Israel.)

Dennis



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