[lbo-talk] New Republic

[Dennis Perrin]

> 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