And the Nation 's back of the book has long been inferior to the the b-o-b of the otherwise hideous New Republic.
Jesse
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 4:06 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] The Nation and brain death
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> On Feb 21, 2010, at 3:56 PM, SA wrote:
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>> Actually, the thrust of my argument is addressed precisely to those on
>> the left in a position analogous to NR's position on the right - e.g.,
>> most obviously, the people who run the Nation. The whole purpose of a
>> magazine like that should be to explain to people why - for example -
>> corporate personhood is a red herring, even as it encourages people to
>> go out and raise hell. Instead, the Nation does the opposite. It
>> passively genuflects to every brain-dead trope on the left while
>> passionately excluding any denunciation of Obama.
>
> The Nation isn't at all interested in ideas - the opposite of NR back in
> the day. (NR today is risible, but that's another story.) So it turns out
> that one of the reasons that Katrina gave MHL a column is that she
> allegedly speaks to an audience far broader than The Nation's usual
> readership. The magazine shouldn't be some sort of massification device -
> it should be a thing where people think seriously. Instead, the editor is
> dumbing the thing down. It's doing more than passively genuflecting to
> brain-dead tropes - it's actively disseminating them.
>
> Doug
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