Word: kinsley
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...Democratic Party for its lack of pragmatism and echoed Peretz's forceful pro-Israel views. No journal has done better explaining the often unprincipled but always practical reasoning of Bush Administration officials, who routinely unburdened themselves to the magazine's White House correspondent, Fred Barnes. Notes Michael Kinsley, a former New Republic editor who still writes the magazine's "TRB" column: "I don't think Andrew's appointment indicates any change. It confirms a change that has been implicit for many years...
...fact, Sullivan's appointment does indicate a subtle but significant change. Like Peretz, both Kinsley and the most recent editor, former Carter speechwriter Hendrik Hertzberg, had their intellectual roots in old-fashioned liberalism. Even as they and their colleagues criticized the outworn dogmas of the Left, they conveyed anguish about the future of liberalism and the Democratic Party. Though his views on social issues are eclectic, Sullivan is no lapsed liberal. Instead he is a Young-Turk Tory not given to twinges of regret over liberalism's demise...
STAFF WRITERS: Guy Garcia, Christine Gorman, Emily Mitchell, Alex Prud'homme CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Carl Bernstein, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Katherine Mihok, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, Nancy McD. Chase, Georgia Harbison, Anne Hopkins, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Sidney Urquhart...
STAFF WRITERS: Guy Garcia, Christine Gorman, Emily Mitchell, Alex Prud'homme CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Carl Bernstein, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Katherine Mihok, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, Nancy McD. Chase, Georgia Harbison, Anne Hopkins, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Sidney Urquhart...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Carl Bernstein, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Katherine Mihok, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, Nancy McD. Chase, Georgia Harbison, Anne Hopkins, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Sidney Urquhart...