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5 unusual facts about The New Republic


Charles Kinbote

Mary McCarthy, in her 1962 New Republic essay "A Bolt from the Blue" (in which she classed Pale Fire "one of the great works of art of the century") identified the book's author as Professor V. Botkin.

First Into Nagasaki

Harrison's career later included: Chairman of the American Veterans Committee; Editor and Publisher of the The New Republic magazine; author of several books.

Hans Morgenthau

Morgenthau also wrote widely about international politics and U.S. foreign policy for general-circulation publications such as The New Leader, Commentary, Worldview, The New York Review of Books, and The New Republic.

Nigel Dennis

Dennis held jobs at the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, a censorship body; The New Republic, a progressive political journal; and Time (magazine).

Signe Toksvig

She graduated from Cornell in 1916, and then worked as an assistant editor at The New Republic.


American Independent News Network

Spencer Ackerman, who has written for The New Republic and Talking Points Memo writes for The Washington Independent. Ed Brayton, a freelance writer who blogs at Dispatches from the Culture Wars, is the state editor for The Michigan Messenger.

Dana Goldstein

Her work on politics, education, and women's issues has appeared in national publications including The American Prospect, Slate, TIME, BusinessWeek, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Nation, The Washington Post, and In These Times.

David Yezzi

His poems have been published in literary journals including The Atlantic, Poetry, The Yale Review, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry Daily and The New Criterion.

Gerrit Henry

Henry published feature and critical articles in After Dark, Art News, Art in America, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Art International, The Spectator, and The New Republic.

Howard Brubaker

Howard Brubaker (d. 1957) was an editor of Success and Liberator and a contributor to the New Yorker, Collier's Weekly, The New Republic, Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, and many other magazines.

Jawed Ahmad

According to Eliza Griswold in the The New Republic their status is determined by the base commander, who may convene a more secret, less formal, less thorough procedure called an "Enemy Combatant Review Board".

John McCain lobbyist controversy

Brent Bozell of the watchdog Media Research Center(widely viewed as conservative) speculated that the story was done hastily because it feared the embarrassment of an imminent New Republic article reporting on internal dissension about the story.

JournoList

After Klein shut down JournoList, a new group, calling itself "Cabalist" was started by Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic, Michelle Goldberg and Steven Teles, a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University.

Judith Shulevitz

She has been a columnist for Slate and The New York Times Book Review and currently serves as a columnist for, and the science editor of, The New Republic.

Martin Filler

From 1999 to 2003 he was the architecture critic for The New Republic, and in that latter year was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Nicola Chiaromonte

After moving to New York in 1941, he took on an important role in the leftist anti-Stalinist intellectual scene of the period, writing for The Nation, The New Republic, and Partisan Review.

Paul Hoover

His poetry has appeared in the literary magazines American Poetry Review, Triquarterly, Conjunctions, The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Sulfur, The New Republic, Hambone, and The Iowa Review, among others.

Portnoy's Complaint

The novel began as a dinner-table comedy routine delivered by Roth to New Republic drama critic Robert Brustein and their circle of mutual New York City friends (The Facts)

Richard Locke

He is the author of more than 180 essays and reviews that have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review, Bookforum, Salmagundi, The Yale Review, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and other publications.

Robert Moss

He edited The Economist's weekly Foreign Report from 1974-1980, and wrote for many other publications, including The Daily Telegraph, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic and Commentary.

Roger Copeland

His essays about theater, film, and dance have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Village Voice, Film Comment, Partisan Review, American Theatre, and many other publications.

Roger Revelle

When Gore was running for the vice-presidential nomination in 1992, The New Republic picked up on the contrast between the references to Revelle in Gore's book, Earth in the Balance, and the views in the Cosmos article that could now be attributed to Revelle.

SantaLand Diaries

In 2007, writing for The New Republic, Alexander S. Heard fact-checked various aspects of Sedaris's stories, including SantaLand Diaries, and found that several aspects were exaggerated and manufactured, although Sedaris did work in Macy's during the time period represented.

Shayne Currie

He drew comparisons with the actions of reporters Jayson Blair at The New York Times, and Stephen Glass at The New Republic.

Steven A. Cook

Cook contributes regularly to foreign policy journals such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and The New Republic.

Tony Rothman

Rothman was the scientific editor for Andrei Sakharov's Memoirs and he has contributed to numerous magazines, including Scientific American, Discover, The New Republic and History Today.


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Aedanus Burke

In 1783 he published two pamphlets, An Address to the Freemen of South Carolina (January 1783) and Considerations on the Society or Order of Cincinnati (October 1783), under the pseudonym Cassius where he criticized the nascent Society of the Cincinnati for being an attempt at reestablishing a hereditary nobility in the new republic.

Billy Carter

A 1985 Wall Street Journal investigation suggested that a series of Billygate articles written by Michael Ledeen and published in The New Republic in October 1980 were part of a disinformation campaign intended to influence the outcome of that year's presidential election.

Blog Wars

The 60 minute film features a range of top bloggers, liberal and conservative, including: Markos Moulitsas, founder of DailyKos; Michelle Malkin, blogger and Fox News Commentator; Jane Hamsher, founder of firedoglake; John Hinderaker, co-founder of Powerline; Charles Foster Johnson, founder of littlegreenfootballs; Andrew Sullivan, former editor of the New Republic.

Flag and seal of Virginia

The royal crown which has fallen to the ground beside him symbolizes the new republic's release from the monarchical control of Great Britain; Virginia and New York are the only U.S. states with a flag or seal displaying a crown.

Foer

Franklin Foer, American journalist and editor-at-large for The New Republic

Frederick William II of Prussia

The insurrection in Poland that followed the partition of 1793, and the threat of the isolated intervention of Russia, hurried Frederick William into the separate Treaty of Basel with the French Republic (5 April 1795), which was regarded by the great monarchies as a betrayal, and left Prussia morally isolated in Europe on the eve of the struggle between the monarchical principle and the new republican creed of the Revolution.

Gilbert Harrison

Gilbert A. Harrison (1915–2008), owner and editor of The New Republic magazine

Harry Huge

Huge has co-authored articles in the New Republic, with Robert Coles, including: "Strom Thurmond Country: The Way It Is in South Carolina," (November 30, 1968); "FBI on the Trail of the Hunger-Mongers," (December 21, 1968); "Black Lung: Mining As a Way of Death," (January 25, 1969); "Thorns on the Yellow Rose of Texas," April 19, 1969; "Peonage in Florida," (October 19, 1969).

James Ridgeway

Ridgeway became nationally known when he revealed in The New Republic that General Motors had hired private detectives to tail consumer advocate Ralph Nader in an attempt to dig up information that might discredit him (Nader was behind litigation which challenged the safety of the Chevrolet Corvair).

Pink triangle

An openly gay man named Heinz Dörmer, for instance, served 20 years total, first in a Nazi concentration camp and then in the jails of the new Republic.

Postage stamps and postal history of Austria

In 1919 the republic issued new designs; a post horn, the coat of arms, a kneeling man representing the new republic, and the Parliament building, all done in a vaguely Art Nouveau style, and inscribed "DEUTSCHÖSTERREICH" ("ÖSTERREICH" appeared in 1922).

Pratap Chatterjee

"Diyarbakır Dispatch: Border Guard." The New Republic, February 13, 2003.

Rendon Group

According to the New Republic's Franklin Foer, "He masterminded Michael Dukakis's gubernatorial campaign in 1974; worked as executive director of the Democratic National Committee in the Jimmy Carter era; managed the 1980 Democratic convention in New York; and subsequently worked as chief scheduler for Carter's reelection campaign."

Spencer Ackerman

In October 2006 he was fired by The New Republic Editor Franklin Foer.

The Black Fleet Crisis

Nil Spaar, the shrewd, coldblooded Machiavellian Viceroy of the Yevethan Protectorate, sees that as an opportunity he can exploit and an opportunity to destroy the New Republic from within.