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To: Lane3 who wrote (52454)	7/1/2004 7:27:00 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793685

So either Nation isn't serious or I was mistaken. I don't know anything about the magazine beyond recognizing the name. It has been the bellwether magazine of the left for half a century. That it has now stooped to this kind of thing shows you how insane the left has become. I suspect that is why JohnM refused to believe it.

To: Lane3 who wrote (52454)	7/1/2004 7:28:28 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793685

The Nation is a long established (founded 1865) liberal journal of opinion. Hitchens used to write for them until he quit in 2002 over the Iraq war. Alexander Cockburn and David Corn still write for them, if those names register. I think of The Nation as the left wing equivalent to National Review.

To: Lane3 who wrote (52454)	7/2/2004 6:44:31 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 793685

So either Nation isn't serious or I was mistaken. The publisher, Victor Navasky, defended Alger Hiss for years and only recently conceded he was guilty of espionage - but he tried to make the case that Hiss did it out of patriotism. The editor, Katrina vanden Heuvel, was weaned on radical politics. Her Park Avenue parents were supporters of the Black Panthers. God only knows what the poor child heard growing up....

To: Lane3 who wrote (52454)	7/2/2004 11:57:23 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793685

I didn't think anyone serious would publish such a thing. So either Nation isn't serious or I was mistaken. Oh, The Nation is very serious indeed. Generally dull and boringly so. Someone compared it to The National Review on the right; I think of the Weekly Standard as in the same category. However, some very important pieces get printed there. I just read Tony Judt's tribute to Edward Said online today (a review of a new collection of Said essays), looking for the ad. Easily the best tribute of the several I've read. Turns out, despite vigorous disagreements, they were good friends. As for the ad, I'm hoping to take a look at Barnes and Nobles tomorrow. Looks like a mistake, however. If true, though, it's yet one more indication of how divisive our politics have become.