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87-732: The Club was founded in 1947 by Connecticut architect Robertson 'Happy' Ward (1897–1988), with initial capital of $ 38,000. There were 45 founding members, each paying $ 7,500 for a plot for building a home. A clubhouse was constructed in 1949, and a 9-hole golf course in 1952. Today, there are 53 homes. The clubhouse and beach cottages can accommodate 100 guests. In 2013 the Club established the Mill Reef Yacht Club, which hosts international sailing regattas on Nonsuch Bay, Antigua. Early Club members included Archibald MacLeish , Dean Acheson and Paul Mellon , who later named his champion horse Mill Reef for

174-528: A 1988 book by Jamaica Kincaid , which noted that ordinary Antiguans stood no chance of entry to the Club or accessing the beautiful beaches unless as staff. Since 1960 The Mill Reef Fund has distributed over US $ 9 million to worthy organizations in Antigua and Barbuda. 17°02′00″N 61°41′00″W  /  17.033333°N 61.683333°W  / 17.033333; -61.683333 Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982)

261-577: A graduate degree), relatively affluent (55% having a household income of over $ 60,000 and 31% having a six figure income), white (83%), and more likely to be male (61%). Eighty two percent were at least 35 years old with 38% being over the age of 50. New Republic editor Michael Whitney Straight (1948 to 1956) was later discovered to be a spy for the KGB , recruited into the same network as Donald Maclean , Guy Burgess , Kim Philby , and Anthony Blunt . Straight's espionage activities began at Cambridge during

348-538: A great deal of time, energy, and over $ 20 million, I have come to the conclusion that it is time for new leadership and vision at The New Republic." In February 2016, Win McCormack bought the magazine from Hughes and named Eric Bates, the former executive editor of Rolling Stone , as editor. In September 2017, Bates was demoted from his leadership role to a masthead title of "editor at large." J.J. Gould , coming from The Atlantic , then served as editor for just over

435-510: A less uniformly pro-Israel tone in the magazine's coverage than its editorial stance during Peretz's ownership. On December 4, 2014, Gabriel Snyder, previously of Gawker and Bloomberg, replaced Franklin Foer as editor. The magazine was reduced from twenty issues per year to ten and the editorial offices moved from Penn Quarter , Washington DC, to New York, where it was reinvented as a "vertically integrated digital-media company." The changes provoked

522-552: A library is, in itself, an assertion. [...] It asserts that [...] all these different and dissimilar reports, these bits and pieces of experience, manuscripts in bottles, messages from long before, from deep within, from miles beyond, belonged together and might, if understood together, spell out the meaning which the mystery implies. [...] The library, almost alone of the great monuments of civilization, stands taller now than it ever did before. The city [...] decays. The nation loses its grandeur [...]. The university

609-665: A major crisis among the publication's editorial staff and contributing editors. The magazine's literary editor, Leon Wieseltier , resigned in protest. Subsequent days brought many more resignations, including those of executive editors Rachel Morris and Greg Veis; nine of the magazine's eleven active senior writers; legal-affairs editor Jeffrey Rosen ; the digital-media editor; six culture writers and editors; and thirty-six out of thirty-eight contributing editors (including Paul Berman , Jonathan Chait, William Deresiewicz, Ruth Franklin, Anthony Grafton, Enrique Krauze, Ryan Lizza, Sacha Z. Scoblic, Helen Vendler, Sean Wilentz). In all, two-thirds of

696-533: A post he accepted at the urging of President Franklin D. Roosevelt . From 1949 to 1962, he was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard . He was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois . His father, Scottish-born Andrew MacLeish , worked as a dry-goods merchant and was a founder of the Chicago department store Carson Pirie Scott . His mother, Martha (née Hillard),

783-521: A writer and editor for Henry Luce's Fortune , during which he also became increasingly politically active, especially with antifascist causes. By the 1930s, he considered capitalism to be "symbolically dead" and wrote the verse play Panic (1935) in response. While in Paris, Harry Crosby , publisher of the Black Sun Press , offered to publish MacLeish's poetry. Both MacLeish and Crosby had overturned

870-664: A year, before resigning in December 2018. In November 2017, Hamilton Fish V , the publisher since McCormack's acquisition of the magazine, resigned amid allegations of workplace misconduct. Kerrie Gillis was named publisher in February 2019 and Chris Lehmann, formerly the editor in chief of The Baffler , was named editor April 9, 2019. Within months his management style faced public criticism for his hiring process of an Inequality Editor, posted on June 28. Within weeks, another scandal erupted, with Lehmann facing even harsher criticism from

957-559: Is a report of one kind or another and the sum of all of them together is our little knowledge of our world and of ourselves. Call a book Das Kapital or The Voyage of the Beagle or Theory of Relativity or Alice in Wonderland or Moby Dick , it is still [...] a "report" upon the "mystery of things." But if this is what a book is [...], then a library [...] is an extraordinary thing. [...] The existence of

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1044-710: Is not always certain what it is. But the library remains: a silent and enduring affirmation that the great Reports still speak, and not alone but somehow all together [...] Two collections of MacLeish's papers are held at the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library . These are the Archibald MacLeish Collection and the Archibald MacLeish Collection Addition. Additionally, more than 13,500 items from his papers and his personal library are held in

1131-651: The Harvard Law Review . His studies were interrupted by World War I , in which he served first as an ambulance driver and later as an artillery officer. He fought at the Second Battle of the Marne. His brother, Kenneth MacLeish , was killed in action during the war. He graduated from law school in 1919, taught law for a semester for the government department at Harvard, then worked briefly as an editor for The New Republic . He next spent three years practicing law with

1218-579: The Office of Strategic Services , the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency . "These operations were overseen by the distinguished Harvard University historian William L. Langer , who, with the assistance of the American Council of Learned Societies and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, set out immediately to recruit a professional staff drawn from across the social sciences. Over

1305-415: The 2003 invasion of Iraq expressed strong support for military action and cited the threat of facilities for weapons of mass destruction as well as humanitarian concerns. In the first years of the war, editorials were critical of the handling of the war but continued to justify the invasion on humanitarian grounds although they no longer maintained that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction posed any threat to

1392-538: The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and " New Democrats ", such as Bill Clinton and Joseph Lieberman , who received the magazine's endorsement in the 2004 Democratic primary . In the 21st century, the magazine gradually shifted left but was still more moderate and hawkish than conventional liberal periodicals. Policies supported by both The New Republic and the DLC in the 1990s were increased funding for

1479-471: The Earned Income Tax Credit program, the reform of the federal welfare system, and supply-side economics , especially the idea of reducing higher marginal income tax rates , which in the later Peretz years received heavy criticism from senior editor Jonathan Chait . The New Republic's support for Israel, including conservative right-wing or Likud stances of the state, was a strong theme of

1566-685: The Farm Security Administration and other agencies. The book influenced Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath . American Libraries has called MacLeish "one of the 100 most influential figures in librarianship during the 20th century" in the United States. MacLeish's career in libraries and public service began, not with an internal desire, but from a combination of the urging of a close friend, Felix Frankfurter , and as MacLeish put it, "The President decided I wanted to be Librarian of Congress." Franklin D. Roosevelt 's nomination of MacLeish

1653-484: The TNR website's Quantcast webpage contains the following messages: "This publisher has not implemented Quantcast Measurement. Data is estimated and not verified by Quantcast...," and "We do not have enough information to provide a traffic estimate...," and "Traffic data unavailable until this site becomes quantified." Demographically, data show that visitors tend to be well educated (76% being college graduates, with 33% having

1740-639: The TRB column , was intensely critical of Clinton. Chuck Lane held the editor's position between 1997 and 1999. During Lane's tenure, the Stephen Glass scandal occurred. Glass , who had been a major contributing writer under Kelly's editorship, was later shown to have falsified and fabricated numerous stories, which was admitted by The New Republic after an investigation by Kelly's successor, Charles Lane . Kelly had consistently supported Glass during his tenure, including sending scathing letters to those challenging

1827-596: The United States Senate , victory in a roll call vote with 63 senators voting in favor of MacLeish's appointment was achieved. MacLeish was sworn in as Librarian of Congress on July 10, 1939, by the local postmaster at Conway, Massachusetts . MacLeish became privy to Roosevelt's views on the library during a private meeting with the President. According to Roosevelt, the pay levels were too low and many people would need to be removed. Soon afterward, MacLeish joined

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1914-565: The War Department's Office of Facts and Figures , and as the assistant director of the Office of War Information . These jobs were heavily involved with propaganda, which was well-suited to MacLeish's talents; he had written quite a bit of politically motivated work in the previous decade. He spent a year as the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and a further year representing

2001-532: The Yugoslav Wars . It was widely considered a "must read" across the political spectrum. An article in Vanity Fair judged it "the smartest, most impudent weekly in the country" and the "most entertaining and intellectually agile magazine in the country." According to Alterman, the magazine's prose could sparkle and the contrasting views in its pages were "genuinely exciting." He added, "The magazine unarguably set

2088-428: The progressive movement , it attempted to find a balance between "a liberalism centered in humanitarian and moral passion and one based in an ethos of scientific analysis". The New Republic was founded by Herbert Croly , Walter Lippmann , and Walter Weyl . They gained the financial backing of heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney and of her husband, Willard Straight (1880–1918); and Willard Straight eventually became

2175-547: The 1930s; he later claimed that they ceased during World War II. Later, shortly before serving in the Kennedy administration, he revealed his past ties and turned in fellow spy Anthony Blunt. In return for his cooperation, his own involvement was kept secret and he continued to serve in various capacities for the US Government until he retired. Straight admitted his involvement in his memoirs; however, subsequent documents obtained from

2262-793: The 1940s and 1950s, including J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy . Much of this was due to his involvement with left-wing organizations such as the League of American Writers , and to his friendships with prominent left-wing writers. Time magazine's Whittaker Chambers cited him as a fellow traveler in a 1941 article: "By 1938, U. S. Communists could count among their allies such names as Granville Hicks , Newton Arvin , Waldo Frank , Lewis Mumford , Matthew Josephson , Kyle Crichton (Robert Forsythe), Malcolm Cowley , Donald Ogden Stewart , Erskine Caldwell , Dorothy Parker , Archibald MacLeish, Lillian Hellman , Dashiell Hammett , John Steinbeck , George Soule , many another." In 1949, MacLeish became

2349-506: The 1950s, the publication was critical both of Soviet foreign policy and of domestic anticommunism , particularly McCarthyism . During the 1960s, the magazine opposed the Vietnam War but also often criticized the New Left . Until the late 1960s, the magazine had a certain "cachet as the voice of re-invigorated liberalism", in the opinion of the commentator Eric Alterman , who has criticized

2436-616: The 1980s, the magazine generally supported President Ronald Reagan 's anticommunist foreign policy, including his provision of aid to the Nicaraguan Contras . The magazine's editors also supported both the Gulf War and the Iraq War and, reflecting its belief in the moral efficacy of American power, intervention in "humanitarian" crises, such as those in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo during

2523-501: The Archibald MacLeish Collection at Greenfield Community College in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Smith College's MacLeish Field Station is named after MacLeish and his wife Ada, who were close friends of former Smith president Jill Ker Conway and introduced her to the natural environment around Northampton, Massachusetts . In 1916, he married Ada Hitchcock, a musician. MacLeish had three children: Kenneth, Mary Hillard, and William,

2610-743: The Boston firm Choate, Hall & Stewart . MacLeish expressed his disillusion with war in his poem Memorial Rain , published in 1926. In 1923, MacLeish left his law firm and moved with his wife to Paris, where they joined the community of literary expatriates that included such members as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway . They also became part of the famed coterie of Riviera hosts Gerald and Sarah Murphy , which included Hemingway, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald , John Dos Passos , Fernand Léger , Jean Cocteau , Pablo Picasso , John O'Hara , Cole Porter , Dorothy Parker , and Robert Benchley . He returned to America in 1928. From 1930 to 1938, he worked as

2697-673: The Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. He held this position until his retirement in 1962. In 1959, his play J.B. won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama . From 1963 to 1967, he was the John Woodruff Simpson Lecturer at Amherst College . In 1969, MacLeish met Bob Dylan , and asked him to contribute songs to Scratch , a musical MacLeish was writing, based on the story " The Devil and Daniel Webster " by Stephen Vincent Benét . The collaboration

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2784-716: The Moon.'" MacLeish worked to promote the arts, culture, and libraries. Among other impacts, MacLeish was the first Librarian of Congress to begin the process of naming what would become the United States Poet Laureate . The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress came from a donation in 1937 from Archer M. Huntington , a wealthy ship builder. Like many donations, it came with strings attached. In this case, Huntington wanted poet Joseph Auslander to be named to

2871-403: The U.S. at the creation of UNESCO , where he contributed to the preamble of its 1945 Constitution ("Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed." ). After this, he retired from public service and returned to academia . Despite a long history of debate over the merits of Marxism , MacLeish came under fire from anticommunists in

2958-642: The United States. In the November 27, 2006 issue, the editors wrote: At this point, it seems almost beside the point to say this: The New Republic deeply regrets its early support for this war. The past three years have complicated our idealism and reminded us of the limits of American power and our own wisdom. Until February 2007, The New Republic was owned by Martin Peretz, New York financiers Roger Hertog and Michael Steinhardt , and Canadian media conglomerate Canwest . In late February 2007, Peretz sold his share of

3045-571: The article's inaccuracies and said, "The White House issued a point-by-point rebuttal, which The New Republic did not run. Instead it published a long piece by McCaughey attacking the White House statement." Sullivan also published a number of pieces by Camille Paglia . Ruth Shalit , a young writer for the magazine in the Sullivan years, was repeatedly criticized for plagiarism. After the Shalit scandals,

3132-640: The author of a memoir of his father, Uphill with Archie (2001). He died in 1982, at the age of 89. The New Republic The New Republic is an American magazine focused on domestic politics, news, culture, and the arts, with ten magazines a year and a daily online platform. The New York Times described the magazine as partially founded in Teddy Roosevelt 's living room and known for its "intellectual rigor and left-leaning political views." Active Defunct Journals TV channels Websites Other Founded in 1914 by several leaders of

3219-400: The club. Early Club rules reflected a British style that required coats and ties at dinner and whites on the tennis and croquet courts. Ostentatious displays of wealth were discouraged by a $ 25,000 limit on home construction costs and a 2-bedroom limit to houses (no longer in force). Membership was by invitation only, either through existing members or by Ward encouraging travel agents to pass on

3306-444: The details of high-end clients who would contribute to his vision of “a Caribbean community of blue waters, white beaches and sweeping vistas dedicated to good fellowship.”[1] The Antiguan government welcomed its wealthy, publicity-shy guests, and when paparazzi attempted to photograph Jacqueline Kennedy from an adjacent public beach, they were arrested and deported.[2] The Club and its residents were criticized in A Small Place ,

3393-612: The direction of governmental interventionism , both foreign and domestic. The most important of the perceived changes was the emergence of the U.S. as a great power on the international scene. In 1917, TNR urged America's entry into the Great War on the side of the Allies . Even before the U.S. entered the war, the Russian Revolution had started in March 1917. During the interwar years ,

3480-405: The environment and economics...." Other prominent writers who edited or wrote for the magazine in those years include senior editor and columnist Jonathan Chait , Lawrence F. Kaplan , John Judis and Spencer Ackerman . The New Republic gradually became much less left-wing under Peretz, which culminated in the editorship of the conservative Andrew Sullivan . The magazine was associated with

3567-556: The front page of Time would need when the men landed was a poem. What the poet wrote would count most, but we also wanted to say to our readers, look, this paper does not know how to express how it feels this day and perhaps you don't either, so here is a fellow, a poet, who will try for all of us. We called one poet who just did not think much of moons or us, and then decided to reach higher for somebody with more zest in his soul – for Archibald MacLeish, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes . He turned in his poem on time and entitled it 'Voyage to

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3654-409: The largest one-year increase to date. Much of the increase went toward improved pay levels, increased acquisitions in underserved subject areas, and new positions. MacLeish resigned as Librarian of Congress on December 19, 1944, to take up the post of Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs . Archibald MacLeish also assisted with the development of the new " Research and Analysis Branch " of

3741-403: The library to "report on the mystery of things." Last, but not least, MacLeish promoted the Library of Congress through various forms of public advocacy . Perhaps his greatest display of public advocacy was requesting a budget increase of over a million dollars in his March 1940 budget proposal to Congress. While the library did not receive the full increase, it received an increase of $ 367,591,

3828-411: The library's collection had not yet been cataloged. MacLeish solved the problem of acquisitions and cataloging through establishing another committee instructed to seek advice from specialists outside of the Library of Congress. The committee found many subject areas of the library to be adequate and many other areas to be, surprisingly, inadequately provided for. A set of general principles on acquisitions

3915-444: The library's functions into three departments: administration, processing, and reference. All existing divisions were then assigned as appropriate. By including library scientists from inside and outside the Library of Congress, MacLeish was able to gain faith from the library community that he was on the right track. Within a year, MacLeish had completely restructured the Library of Congress, making it work more efficiently and aligning

4002-507: The library, rather "...one problem or another demanded action, and each problem solved led on to another that needed attention." MacLeish's chief accomplishments had their start in instituting daily staff meetings with division chiefs, the chief assistant librarian, and other administrators. He then set about setting up various committees on various projects, including acquisitions policy, fiscal operations, cataloging, and outreach. The committees alerted MacLeish to various problems throughout

4089-475: The library. Putnam was conspicuously not invited to attend these meetings, resulting in the librarian emeritus' feelings being "mortally hurt", but according to MacLeish, it was necessary to exclude Putnam; otherwise, "he would have been sitting there listening to talk about himself which he would take personally." First and foremost, under Putnam, the library was acquiring more books than it could catalog . A report in December 1939, found that over one-quarter of

4176-461: The magazine began using fact-checkers during Sullivan's time as editor. One was Stephen Glass . When later working as a reporter, he was later found to have made up quotes, anecdotes, and facts in his own articles. After Sullivan stepped down in 1996, David Greenberg and Peter Beinart served jointly as acting editors. After the 1996 election, Michael Kelly served as editor for a year. During his tenure as editor and afterward, Kelly, who also wrote

4263-584: The magazine from the beginning: "Support for Israel is deep down an expression of America's best view of itself." According to the journalism professor Eric Alterman : Nothing has been as consistent about the past 34 years of The New Republic as the magazine's devotion to Peretz's own understanding of what is good for Israel.... It is really not too much to say that almost all of Peretz's political beliefs are subordinate to his commitment to Israel's best interests, and these interests as Peretz defines them almost always involve more war. Unsigned editorials prior to

4350-440: The magazine to CanWest, which announced that a subsidiary, CanWest Media Works International, had acquired a full interest in the publication. Peretz retained his position as editor-in-chief. In March 2009, Peretz and a group of investors, led by the former Lazard executive Laurence Grafstein and including Michael Alter , bought the magazine back from CanWest, which was on the edge of bankruptcy. Frank Foer continued as editor and

4437-419: The magazine to return to The New Yorker . Kinsley left the magazine in 1996 to found the online magazine Slate . In 1994, Sullivan invited Charles Murray to contribute a 10,000-word article, excerpted from his coauthored book The Bell Curve . The article, which contended that "African Americans score differently from whites on standardized tests of cognitive ability," proved to be very controversial and

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4524-670: The magazine was generally positive in its assessment of the Soviet Union (founded in 1922) and of Joseph Stalin . TNR changed its position after the Cold War began in 1947, and in 1948, its leftist editor, the former Vice President of the United States Henry A. Wallace , departed to run for president on the Progressive ticket. After Wallace, the magazine moved toward positions more typical of mainstream American liberalism. Throughout

4611-486: The magazine's increased stature in the 1980s was its "back of the book" or literary, cultural and arts pages, which were edited by Leon Wieseltier . Peretz discovered Wieseltier, then working at Harvard's Society of Fellows, and installed him in charge of the section. Wieseltier reinvented the section along the lines of The New York Review of Books and allowed his critics, many of them academics, to write longer, critical essays, instead of simple book reviews. Alterman calls

4698-407: The magazine's politics from the left. That cachet, Alterman wrote, "was perhaps best illustrated when the dashing, young President Kennedy had been photographed boarding Air Force One holding a copy". In March 1974, the magazine was purchased for $ 380,000 by Martin Peretz , a lecturer at Harvard University, from Gilbert A. Harrison . Peretz was a veteran of the New Left but had broken with

4785-461: The majority owner. The magazine's first issue was published on November 7, 1914. The magazine's politics were liberal and progressive , and as such concerned with coping with the great changes brought about by middle-class reform efforts designed to remedy perceived weaknesses in America's changing economy and society. The magazine is widely considered important in changing the character of liberalism in

4872-509: The most immediate concern to the peoples of the United States. Secondly, MacLeish set about reorganizing the operational structure. Leading scholars in library science were assigned a committee to analyze the library's managerial structure. The committee issued a report a mere two months after it was formed, in April 1940, stating that a major restructuring was necessary. This was no surprise to MacLeish, who had 35 divisions under him. He divided

4959-465: The most interesting magazines in the United States." Credit for its influence was often attributed to Kinsley, whose wit and critical sensibility were seen as enlivening, and Hertzberg, a writer for The New Yorker and speechwriter for Jimmy Carter . Hertzberg and Kinsley alternated as editor and as the author of the magazine's lead column, " TRB from Washington ." Its perspective was described as center-left in 1988. A final ingredient that led to

5046-516: The movement over its support of various Third World liberationist movements, particularly the Palestine Liberation Organization . Harrison continued editing the magazine and expected Peretz to let him continue running the magazine for three years. However, by 1975, when Peretz became annoyed at having his own articles rejected for publication while he was pouring money into the magazine to cover its losses, he fired Harrison. Much of

5133-409: The names on the editorial masthead were gone. The mass resignations forced the magazine to suspend its December 2014 edition. Previously a weekly for most of its history, it was immediately before suspension published ten times per year with a circulation of approximately 50,000. The company went back to publishing twenty issues a year, and editor Gabriel Snyder worked with staff to reshape it. In

5220-464: The next 12 months, academic specialists from fields ranging from geography to classical philology descended upon Washington, bringing with them their most promising graduate students, and set up shop in the headquarters of the Research and Analysis (R&A) Branch at Twenty-third and E Streets, and in the new annex to the Library of Congress." During World War II , MacLeish also served as director of

5307-513: The normal expectations of society, rejecting conventional careers in the legal and banking fields. Crosby published MacLeish's long poem "Einstein" in a deluxe edition of 150 copies that sold quickly. MacLeish was paid $ 200 for his work. In 1932, MacLeish published his long poem "Conquistador", which presents Cortés's conquest of the Aztecs as symbolic of the American experience. In 1933, "Conquistador"

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5394-532: The position. Bogan, who had long been a hostile critic of MacLeish's own writing, asked MacLeish why he appointed her to the position; MacLeish replied that she was the best person for the job. For MacLeish, promoting the Library of Congress and the arts was vitally more important than petty personal conflicts. In the June 5, 1972, issue of The American Scholar , MacLeish laid out in an essay his philosophy on libraries and librarianship, further shaping modern thought on

5481-492: The position. MacLeish found little value in Auslander's writing. However, MacLeish was happy that having Auslander in the post attracted many other poets, such as Robinson Jeffers and Robert Frost , to hold readings at the library. He set about establishing the consultantship as a revolving post rather than a lifetime position. In 1943, MacLeish displayed his love of poetry and the Library of Congress by naming Louise Bogan to

5568-528: The public and the media for his decision to publish a controversial op-ed by Dale Peck called "My Mayor Pete Problem." The op-ed was retracted, with Lehmann commenting in a separate statement: "The New Republic recognizes that this post crossed a line, and while it was largely intended as satire, it was inappropriate and invasive." In March 2021, it was announced that Lehmann would be departing his role as editor and would be replaced by Michael Tomasky . The New Republic ' s average paid circulation for 2009

5655-451: The retiring Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam for a luncheon in New York. At the meeting, Putnam relayed his intention to continue working at the library, that he would be given the title of librarian emeritus, and that his office would be down the hall from MacLeish's. The meeting further crystallized for MacLeish that as Librarian of Congress, he would be "an unpopular newcomer, disturbing

5742-472: The selection of Wieseltier "probably... Peretz's single most significant positive achievement" in running the magazine. Despite changes of other editors, Wieseltier remained as cultural editor. Under him the section was "simultaneously erudite and zestful," according to Alterman." In 1991, Andrew Sullivan became editor. He took the magazine in a somewhat more conservative direction, but the majority of writers remained liberal or neoliberal. Hertzberg soon left

5829-553: The staff, including Walter Pincus , Stanley Karnow , and Doris Grumbach , were fired or quit and were replaced largely by recent Harvard graduates, who lacked journalistic experience. Peretz became the editor and served in that post until 1979. In 1980, the magazine endorsed the moderate Republican John B. Anderson , who ran as an independent, rather than the Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter . As other editors were appointed, Peretz remained editor-in-chief until 2012. Michael Kinsley

5916-477: The status quo." A question from MacLeish's daughter, Mimi, led him to realize, "Nothing is more difficult for the beginning librarian than to discover [in] what profession he was engaged." Mimi, his daughter, had inquired about what her daddy was to do all day, "...hand out books?" MacLeish created his own job description and set out to learn about how the library was currently organized. In October 1944, MacLeish described that he did not set out to reorganize

6003-417: The subject: No true book [...] was ever anything else than a report. [...] A true book is a report upon the mystery of existence [...] it speaks of the world, of our life in the world. Everything we have in the books on which our libraries are founded— Euclid 's figures, Leonardo 's notes, Newton 's explanations, Cervantes ' myth, Sappho 's broken songs, the vast surge of Homer —everything

6090-549: The terms of debate for insider political elites during the Reagan era." The magazine won the respect of many conservative opinion leaders. Twenty copies were sent by messenger to the Reagan White House each Thursday afternoon. Norman Podhoretz called the magazine "indispensable, " and George Will called it "currently the nation's most interesting and most important political journal." National Review described it as "one of

6177-409: The veracity of Glass's stories. (The events were later dramatized in the feature film Shattered Glass , adapted from a 1998 report by H.G. Bissinger .) Peretz has written that Lane ultimately "put the ship back on its course," for which Peretz said he was "immensely grateful." Lane resigned after he learned that Peretz intended to replace him. Peter Beinart , a third editor who took over when he

6264-487: The wake of the editorial crisis, Hughes indicated that he intended to stay with The New Republic over the long term, telling an NPR interviewer of his desire to make sure the magazine could produce quality journalism "hopefully for decades to come." He published an open letter about his "commitment" to give the magazine "a new mandate for a new century." However, on January 11, 2016, Hughes put The New Republic up for sale. In another open letter, he said, "After investing

6351-404: Was 28 years old, followed Lane. He served as editor from 1999 to 2006. In the early 2000s, the TNR added Buzz weblogs &c. , Iraq'd , and Easterblogg , replaced in 2005 with the sole blog The Plank . The Stump was added in 2007 and covered the 2008 presidential election . The magazine remained well known, with references to it occasionally popping up in popular culture. Lisa Simpson

6438-437: Was 53,485 copies per issue. The New Republic ' s last reported circulation numbers to media auditor BPA Worldwide were for the six months ending on June 30, 2009. According to Quantcast , the TNR website received roughly 120,000 visitors in April 2008, and 962,000 visitors in April 2012. By June 9, 2012, the TNR website's monthly page visits dropped to 421,000 in the U.S. and 521,000 globally. As of April 16, 2014,

6525-645: Was a college professor and had served as president of Rockford College . He grew up on an estate bordering Lake Michigan . He attended the Hotchkiss School from 1907 to 1911. For his college education, MacLeish went to Yale University, where he majored in English, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa , and was selected for the Skull and Bones society. He then enrolled in Harvard Law School , where he served as an editor of

6612-675: Was a controversial and highly political maneuver fraught with several challenges. MacLeish sought support from expected places such as the president of Harvard, MacLeish's current place of work, but found none. Support from unexpected places, such as M. Llewellyn Raney of the University of Chicago libraries, alleviated the ALA letter-writing campaign against MacLeish's nomination." The main Republican argument against MacLeish's nomination from within Congress

6699-464: Was a failure and Scratch opened without any music; Dylan describes their collaboration in the third chapter of his autobiography Chronicles, Vol. 1 . MacLeish greatly admired T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound , and his work shows quite a bit of their influence. He was the literary figure who played the most important role in freeing Ezra Pound from St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he

6786-490: Was an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University . He enlisted in and saw action during the First World War and lived in Paris in the 1920s. On returning to the United States, he contributed to Henry Luce 's magazine Fortune from 1929 to 1938. For five years, MacLeish was the ninth Librarian of Congress ,

6873-572: Was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, the first of three awarded to MacLeish. In 1934, he wrote a libretto for Union Pacific , a ballet by Nicolas Nabokov and Léonide Massine ( Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo ); it premiered in Philadelphia with great success. In 1938, MacLeish published as a book a long poem "Land of the Free", built around a series of 88 photographs of the rural depression by Dorothea Lange , Walker Evans , Arthur Rothstein , Ben Shahn , and

6960-488: Was editor (1979–1981, 1985–1989), alternating twice with the more leftleaning Hendrik Hertzberg (1981–1985; 1989–1991). Kinsley was only 28 years old when he first became editor and was still attending law school. Writers for the magazine during this era included the neoliberals Mickey Kaus and Jacob Weisberg , along with Charles Krauthammer , Fred Barnes , Morton Kondracke , Sidney Blumenthal , Robert Kuttner , Ronald Steel , Michael Walzer , and Irving Howe . In

7047-608: Was greatly involved in public life and came to believe that this was not only an appropriate, but also an inevitable role for a poet. In 1969, MacLeish was commissioned by the New York Times to write a poem to celebrate the Apollo 11 Moon landing , which he entitled "Voyage to the Moon." The poem appeared on the front page of the July 21, 1969 edition of Time magazine . A. M. Rosenthal , then-editor of Time , later recounted: "We decided what

7134-409: Was incarcerated for high treason between 1946 and 1958. MacLeish's early work was very traditionally modernist and accepted the contemporary modernist position holding that a poet was isolated from society. His most well-known poem, " Ars Poetica ," contains a classic statement of the modernist aesthetic: "A poem should not mean / But be." He later broke with modernism's pure aesthetic. MacLeish himself

7221-633: Was once portrayed as a subscriber to The New Republic for Kids . Matt Groening , the creator of The Simpsons ' , once drew a cover for The New Republic . In the pilot episode of the HBO series Entourage , which first aired on July 18, 2004, Ari Gold asks Eric Murphy : "Do you read The New Republic ? Well, I do, and it says that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about." Franklin Foer took over from Beinart in March 2006. The magazine's first editorial under Foer said, "We've become more liberal.... We've been encouraging Democrats to dream big again on

7308-468: Was published in a special issue together with many responses and critiques. The magazine also published a very critical article by Elizabeth McCaughey about the Clinton administration 's health care plan . Alterman described the article as "dishonest, misinformed," and "the single most influential article published in the magazine during the entire Clinton presidency. James Fallows of The Atlantic noted

7395-563: Was responsible for the day-to-day management of the magazine, and Peretz remained editor-in-chief. Starting with the March 19, 2007 issue, the magazine implemented major changes: On March 9, 2012, Chris Hughes , co-founder of Facebook, was introduced as the New Republic 's majority owner and Editor-in-Chief. Under Hughes, the magazine became less focused on " The Beltway ," with more cultural coverage and attention to visuals. It stopped running an editorial in every issue. Media observers noted

7482-500: Was that he was a poet and was a " fellow traveler " or sympathetic to communist causes. Calling to mind differences with the party he had over the years, MacLeish avowed, "no one would be more shocked to learn I am a Communist than the Communists themselves." In Congress, MacLeish's main advocate was Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley , Democrat from Kentucky. With President Roosevelt's support and Senator Barkley's skillful defense in

7569-439: Was then developed to ensure that, though it was impossible to collect everything, the Library of Congress would acquire the bare minimum of canons to meet its mission. These principles included acquiring all materials necessary to members of Congress and government officers, all materials expressing and recording the life and achievements of the people of the United States, and materials of other societies past and present that are of

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