At 07:13 PM Sunday 2/21/2010, you wrote:
>From: Jesse Lemisch <jesse.lemisch at verizon.net>
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>Doug is completely right. The Nation has succeeded in finding a black woman
>who sounds just like Katha Pollitt and Todd Gitlin, continuing to lead
>people down the bad road of Obamaism.
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>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
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> > 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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