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Michael E. Kinsley '72, a former Crimson executive, resigned as editor of Harper's magazine yesterday to join The New Republic as the weekly journal's new "TRB" columnist...
...Kinsley replaces Richard L. Strout '19, who for 40 years wrote the column, considered to be highly influential in national political circles...
...growing number of commentators are now skeptical. In the May issue of Harper's, Editor Michael Kinsley writes: "Schell's . . . pretentious . . . essay well illustrates the confusion of the antinuclear movement." The heart of Kinsley's argument is that Schell too readily subordinates "liberty," "national sovereignty" and other values to "survival," because the only possible outcomes he sees to nuclear confrontation are annihilation or peace at any price. Contends Kinsley: "To Schell, apparently, all considerations apart from the danger of nuclear war are mere distractions...
...following article, by Michael E. Kinsley '72,first appeared in The Crimson on November 21, 1970. Some things were different then; there was this matter of a war in Southeast Asia, for example. Some things have stayed the same...
...since Harper's Editor Lewis Lapham, 46, announced his resignation last month, the troubled 131-year-old monthly (circ: 336,000) has been engaged in an intense head-hunting expedition. Last week the search committee, headed by Rutgers English Professor Richard Poirier, chose Lapham's replacement: Michael Kinsley, 30, Harvard graduate, lawyer and an editor since 1976 of the New Republic (circ. 97,000). Says Harper's Publisher David Michaels: "He is young, and he was the one person we saw who seemed to present any solid opinion about what we should do for the magazine." Among...