Word: peretz
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Those predecessors included such stalwart liberal thinkers as founding editor Herbert Croly and early contributor Walter Lippmann. But in 1974 the magazine was bought by Martin Peretz. It subsequently reflected his evolution from a major donor to liberal Democratic causes to a leading neoconservative with hawkish views on foreign policy. During the 1980s the magazine went soft on the Reagan Administration, ridiculed much of the 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...
...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...
Sullivan's ascension was something of a surprise. Peretz announced one day nearly a year ago that Sullivan was the new deputy to Hertzberg. His sudden rise -- as well as his penchant for stories on such subjects as the ins and outs of black conservatism -- seemed to mark the culmination of Peretz's own political evolution...
Raised in East Grinstead, a working-class town south of London, Sullivan attended Oxford, where he read history and dabbled in drama and debate. While president of the Oxford Union, he met Peretz, who was participating in a debate on Middle East policies. Sullivan subsequently attended Harvard, where he earned a master's degree and worked summers at the New Republic; he returned to Harvard to complete his doctoral dissertation on conservative philosopher Michael Oakeshott...
...Peretz is one of the few politicians who has dared to offend the newcomers. By 1992, when the next parliamentary ballot is scheduled, these immigrants could elect as many as 20 of the 120 members of the Knesset, enough to break the six-year deadlock between Labor and Likud. Peres believes he can convince Soviet Jews that a territorial compromise with the Palestinians is in their interest. Shamir is just as confident that immigrants will grow attached to his concept of a Greater Israel. Many of the olim are less ideological than other recent settlers, and the idea...