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• In Brief: James Wood, literary critic for The New Republic ...

  Published: August 8, 2007, 11:25 am

  Tags: Tnr Exodus Continues, James Wood, Men, New Republic, Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker

  James Wood, literary critic for The New Republic since 1995, follows recent TNR evacuee Ryan Lizza over to the New Yorker. [NYT]

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• Non-defense of TNR

  Published: August 8, 2007, 1:13 am

  Tags: Weekly Standard, Bushist, Neocon, Tnr, Althouse, Glass, Pnac, Kelly

  not saying that the TNR diary is true, and TNR has had lots of trouble over the years with fact-checking and PNAC-worthy neoconservatism, but you'll need a helluva lot better source to disprove it than freaking Ann Althouse quoting the Weekly Standard quoting an unnamed source and a military investigation that had significant incentives

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• Eli Lake on the Beauchamp Affair

  Published: August 9, 2007, 4:19 am

  Tags: Subscriptions, Baghdad Diarist, Charlie Rose Show, Eli Lake, Franklin Foer Leon Weseltier, Iraq War, Martin Peretz, Michael Crowley, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, Tnr

  TNR editors, as demonstrated by Michael Crowley’s and Jonathan Chait’s performances on BHTV, continue not to convince me to trust them with their own magazine. Eli Lake’s analysis of Beauchamp “smells” better. Lake argues that Scott Thomas Beauchamp’s opinions “did not square” with soldiers’

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• Tiny Ideological Bang

  Published: August 7, 2007, 7:48 am

  Tags: Military, Subscriptions, Baghdad Diarist, Blogosphere, Blogswarm, Books Movies Media, Franklin Foer, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, Tnr, Usa

  still disappointed with TNR, and Franklin Foer. Even on the one issue, of how soldiers taunted a civilian woman disfigured by burns in a chow hall, TNR admits Beauchamp was “inaccurate”, TNR cannot acknowledge the benefit of “confronting” Beauchamp. In the same way, Ross Douthat just lets TNR’s Jonathan Chait

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• That Dream Again

  Published: September 1, 2007, 2:13 am

  Tags: 2008 Elections, Politics, 1992 Elections, 2008 Elections, Bill Clinton, Democrats, Gop, Healthcare Reform, John B Judis, Politics, Republicans, Tnr, Us Senate

  TNR’s John B. Judis has some positive spin for the 2008 elections, but could it just be dread? At any rate, the GOP has to defend 22 Senate, while the Democrats face only 12. …it is very likely that Republicans will pick up no more than one seat, while Democrats may pick up as many as seven seats–and very likely, counting

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• Between Sunshine and Markets

  Published: September 9, 2007, 2:55 am

  Tags: Business Economy, Globalization, Politics, Usa, Subscriptions, Edward L Glaeser, Frank Partnoy, Greg Mankiw, Joshua Rosner, Markets, Ratings Agencies, Regulation, Self Correction, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Subprime Mortgage Scandal, The Economist, Tnr

  TNR’s villainy detector and The Economist’s call for “self-restraint“, there doesn’t seem to be middle ground in the moderate center on the subprime mortgage scandal. The range of options are precisely minute: target the ratings agencies vs. self-correction. Firstly, TNR’s Joshua Rosner offers some

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• The State of the Surge

  Published: September 11, 2007, 8:32 am

  Tags: Military, Eurasian Balkans, Politics, Usa, Subscriptions, Baghdad, Congress, David Petraeus, Democrats, Federalism, George W Bush, Harry Reid, Iraq, Iraq War, James Jones, Joseph Biden Jr, Republicans, Ryan Crocker, The Economist, The Surge, Tnr

  The target was supposed to be General David Petraeus, but Ambassador Ryan Crocker might suffice. Anti-war activists, like MoveOn.org (and its yellow advertisement) have highlighted the military costs of the Iraq War, but I value General Petraeus’ service and what he has tried to accomplish in Baghdad. Ambassador Crocker is target-rich, but

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• Jonathan Chait on bathroom sex: not just for closeted gay senators

  Published: September 25, 2007, 9:35 pm

  Tags: Tnr, The Plank, Jonathan Chait

  Heterosexual, co-ed Wisconsin football fans can also succumb . Find more posts like this at The Plank , only on The New Republic Online....(read more)

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• Christopher Orr on Newt Gingrich: One is not the loneliest number

  Published: September 28, 2007, 5:48 pm

  Tags: Tnr, The Plank, Christopher Orr

  In other Newt news, the former Speaker's "American Solutions" campaign to "outline the challenges facing our country" (motto: "Real change requires real change") seems to be off to a somewhat bumpy start. On the group's web site there's an engine for...(read more)

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• Christopher Orr: The case for Fred Thompson

  Published: October 1, 2007, 2:58 pm

  Tags: Tnr, The Plank, Christopher Orr

  Peter Mulhern at RealClearPolitics makes it : Consider that Fred's calm, sensible demeanor permits him to say things that would terrify many ordinary voters coming from someone who seemed less steady. Thompson can say radical things and nobody turns a...(read more)

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• Noam Scheiber: Mitt Romney's adequate fundraising haul

  Published: October 5, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: The Plank, Noam Scheiber, Tnr

  Overall, I think the Romney campaign can feel okay about the way this quarter's fundraising numbers shook out. Granted, everyone in the GOP is concerned that their candidates are getting lapped by the Democratic field. But, among Republicans, Romney was...(read more)

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• Josh Patashnik: The U.S. Supreme Court on state secrets

  Published: October 9, 2007, 3:38 pm

  Tags: The Plank, Josh Patashnik, Tnr

  The Supreme Court today declined to hear the case of Khaled el-Masri, a German car salesman who was detained--and, he claims, tortured--by the CIA in an unfortunate case of mistaken identity (it took the CIA five months to realize that he was not, in...(read more)

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• Noam Scheiber: Half-baked Gore speculation

  Published: October 12, 2007, 9:30 pm

  Tags: Tnr, The Plank, Noam Scheiber

  Al Gore's Nobel Prize has us all wondering who he'll endorse, something Marc Ambinder says is likely to happen in December. My two cents: If at that point it looks like Obama has some chance of winning the nomination, it'll be Obama. I say that for the...(read more)

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• Josh Patashnik on Jonah Goldberg's selective libertarianism

  Published: October 16, 2007, 2:05 pm

  Tags: Tnr, The Plank, Josh Patashnik

  In today's Los Angeles Times , Jonah Goldberg lays out his reasons for being pro-life, despite his otherwise libertarian-ish philosophy. Some of these are more amusing than others (for instance, his theory that pro-life politicians willing to endure tirades...(read more)

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• Quote of the Day 2: [T]he Term That Fits It Best Is Imperialist

  Published: October 22, 2007, 9:29 pm

  Tags: Spencer Ackerman, Marty Peretz, John B Judis, Jamie Kirchick, Tnr, Wwi, Video, Music, Imperialism, History, Bush

  this mean Judis, a longtime TNR stalwart, will soon join Spackerman on Marty Peretz’s ever-growing shit list? At least Peretz still has the “sizzlingly heartbreaking” sycophancy of Jamie Kirchick to get off on. Nobody but nobody makes a cup of coffee quite like Mini-Marty. WPvideo 1.10 Related: Speaking of

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