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63-553: In November 1928, its name became The Wilson Bulletin: A Magazine for Librarians . Two years later it was renamed Wilson Bulletin for Librarians and in September 1939 the name changed again to Wilson Library Bulletin (WLB), the name by which it was known until it ceased publication in June 1995. WLB was noted for its beautiful covers (often photographs or original art); its publication of library-related cartoons; and its broad scope, covering

126-622: A commission and was discharged with the rank of staff sergeant . After the war, he began a peripatetic teaching career at Bennington College (1946–1949), taking over from Roethke. He subsequently taught at the State University of New York at Potsdam (then the New York State Teachers College at Potsdam) as a full professor (1949–1950; summer sessions through 1954), the New School for Social Research (lecturer; 1950-1957),

189-402: 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 was published in a special issue together with many responses and critiques. The magazine also published a very critical article by Elizabeth McCaughey about

252-570: A Book of Biographies . His poems began to appear in Poetry , Commonweal , The New Republic , The Nation , and The Dial . During World War II, he was drafted into the Army in 1943 as a conscientious objector , and after undergoing basic training three times, served as a noncombatant at Gravely Point, Washington in the Air Transport Command in charge of information and education. He refused

315-499: A collection of essays, The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden . Kunitz's first collection of poems, Intellectual Things, was published in 1930. His second volume of poems, Passport to the War , was published fourteen years later; the book went largely unnoticed, although it featured some of Kunitz's best-known poems, and soon fell out of print. Kunitz's confidence was not in

378-606: 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 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

441-577: 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

504-538: 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

567-510: 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

630-559: 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, the magazine began using fact-checkers during Sullivan's time as editor. One was Stephen Glass . When later working as a reporter, he

693-665: 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

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756-619: A philosophy minor, and then earned a master's degree in English from Harvard the following year. He wanted to continue his studies for a doctorate degree, but was told by the university that the Anglo-Saxon students would not like to be taught by a Jew. After Harvard, he worked as a reporter for The Worcester Telegram , and as editor for the H. W. Wilson Company in New York City. He then founded and edited Wilson Library Bulletin and started

819-533: 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 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

882-664: 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

945-415: 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

1008-602: The American Library Association 's Social Responsibilities Round Table issued a resolution calling for a boycott of the Wilson Library Bulletin due to its dismissal of contributor Will Manley. Manley's column in the June 1992 issue contained a "Librarians and Sex" questionnaire, which "displeased the H.W. Wilson Company President." Stanley Kunitz Stanley Jasspon Kunitz ( / ˈ k juː n ɪ t s / ; July 28, 1905 – May 14, 2006)

1071-518: The Author Biographical Studies . Kunitz married Helen Pearce in 1930; they divorced in 1937. In 1935 he moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania and befriended Theodore Roethke . He married Eleanor Evans in 1939; they had a daughter Gretchen in 1950. Kunitz divorced Eleanor in 1958. At Wilson Company, Kunitz served as co-editor for Twentieth Century Authors , among other reference works. In 1931, as Dilly Tante, he edited Living Authors,

1134-454: 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 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

1197-538: 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

1260-471: 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

1323-1152: The Library of Congress (the precursor title to Poet Laureate), one term as Poet Laureate of the United States, and one term as the State Poet of New York . He founded the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts , and Poets House in New York City . Kunitz also acted as a judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition . Kunitz served as editor of the Wilson Library Bulletin from 1928 to 1943. An outspoken critic of censorship, in his capacity as editor, he targeted his criticism at librarians who did not actively oppose it. He published an article in 1938 by Bernard Berelson entitled "The Myth of Library Impartiality". This article led Forrest Spaulding and

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1386-484: 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

1449-733: The University of Washington (visiting professor; 1955-1956), Queens College (visiting professor; 1956–1957), Brandeis University (poet-in-residence; 1958-1959) and Columbia University (lecturer in the School of General Studies ; 1963–1966) before spending 18 years as an adjunct professor of writing at Columbia's School of the Arts (1967–1985). Throughout this period, he also held visiting appointments at Yale University (1970), Rutgers University–Camden (1974), Princeton University (1978) and Vassar College (1981). After his divorce from Eleanor, he married

1512-483: 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 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

1575-547: 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

1638-469: The 1960s editing reference books and translating Russian poets. When twelve years later The Testing Tree appeared, Kunitz's style was radically transformed from the highly intellectual and philosophical musings of his earlier work to more deeply personal yet disciplined narratives; moreover, his lines shifted from iambic pentameter to a freer prosody based on instinct and breath—usually resulting in shorter stressed lines of three or four beats. Throughout

1701-666: The 70s and 80s, he became one of the most treasured and distinctive voices in American poetry. His collection Passing Through: The Later Poems won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1995. Kunitz received many other honors, including a National Medal of Arts , the Bollingen Prize for a lifetime achievement in poetry, the Robert Frost Medal , and Harvard 's Centennial Medal. He served two terms as Consultant on Poetry for

1764-566: The Des Moines Public Library to draft the Library Bill of Rights , which was later adopted by the American Library Association and continues to serve as the cornerstone document on intellectual freedom in libraries. 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

1827-759: 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 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

1890-507: 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 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,

1953-593: 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

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2016-565: The best of shape when, in 1959, he had trouble finding a publisher for his third book, Selected Poems: 1928-1958. Despite this unflattering experience, the book, eventually published by Little Brown, received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry . In a murderous time the heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking. It is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn. ~ Stanley Kunitz His next volume of poems would not appear until 1971, but Kunitz remained busy through

2079-485: 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 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

2142-483: 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 was editor (1979–1981, 1985–1989), alternating twice with the more leftleaning Hendrik Hertzberg (1981–1985; 1989–1991). Kinsley

2205-520: 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

2268-405: 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

2331-522: 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 the 1950s, the publication was critical both of Soviet foreign policy and of domestic anticommunism , particularly McCarthyism . During the 1960s, the magazine opposed

2394-454: 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 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

2457-483: The household. The death of his father would be a powerful influence on Kunitz's life. Kunitz and his two older sisters, Sarah and Sophia, were raised by his mother, who had made her way from Yashwen , Kovno, Lithuania by herself in 1890, and opened a dry goods store. She remarried in 1910 to Mark Dine The couple filed for bankruptcy in 1912 and then were indicted by the U.S. District Court for concealing assets. They pleaded guilty and turned over USD$ 10,500 to

2520-758: 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 , 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,

2583-512: 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 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

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2646-421: 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 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

2709-584: 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

2772-440: 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

2835-409: 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

2898-488: The painter and poet Elise Asher in 1958. His marriage to Asher led to friendships with artists like Philip Guston and Mark Rothko . Kunitz's poetry won wide praise for its profundity and quality. He was the New York State Poet Laureate from 1987 to 1989. He continued to write and publish until his centenary year, as late as 2005. Many consider that his poetry's symbolism is influenced significantly by

2961-528: 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

3024-445: 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 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

3087-433: 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 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

3150-415: The trustees. Mark Dine died when Kunitz was fourteen; he had a heart attack while hanging curtains. At fifteen, Kunitz moved out of the house and became a butcher's assistant. Later he got a job as a cub reporter on The Worcester Telegram , where continued working during his summer vacations from college. Kunitz graduated summa cum laude in 1926 from Harvard College with an English major and

3213-409: 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

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3276-487: 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

3339-562: The whole of librarianship. In its last decade of publication it became the first library periodical to carry a regular column about the internet (The Internet Cafe, written by Lee Ratzan), to include email addresses of contributors, and to explore the intersection of librarianship and online resources. Its first editor was Edith M. Phelps. Its second was the poet Stanley Kunitz , and others included Howard Haycraft , Marie Loizeaux, Kathleen Molz, Milo Nelson, Mary Jo Godwin, GraceAnne A. DeCandido and William Robert Eshelman (1968–1978). In 1992,

3402-473: The work of Carl Jung . Kunitz influenced many 20th-century poets, including James Wright , Mark Doty , Louise Glück , Joan Hutton Landis, and Carolyn Kizer. For most of his life, Kunitz divided his time between New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts . He enjoyed gardening and maintained one of the most impressive seaside gardens in Provincetown. There he also founded Fine Arts Work Center , where he

3465-404: 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

3528-485: 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,

3591-616: Was a mainstay of the literary community, as he was of Poets House in Manhattan. He was awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award in Sherborn, Massachusetts in October 1998 for his contribution to the liberation of the human spirit through his poetry. He died in 2006 at his home in Manhattan. He had previously come close to death, and reflected on the experience in his last book,

3654-803: Was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000. Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts , the youngest of three children, to Yetta Helen ( née Jasspon) and Solomon Z. Kunitz, both of Jewish Russian Lithuanian descent. Six weeks before Stanley's birth, his father, who was a dressmaker, went bankrupt and committed suicide in Elm Park in Worcester by drinking carbolic acid . His mother removed every trace of Kunitz's father from

3717-408: 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 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

3780-445: 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 the TRB column , was intensely critical of Clinton. Chuck Lane held

3843-633: 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

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3906-493: 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 the 1980s, the magazine generally supported President Ronald Reagan 's anticommunist foreign policy, including his provision of aid to

3969-563: 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

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