The Implausibility of a New Liberalism
The Implausibility of a New Liberalism By William Voegeli Peter Beinart, the editor of The New Republic, has written an unusually long, provocative, and important essay for that magazine. Its title,...
View ArticleThe Politics of Churlishness
Martin Peretz, a principal owner, chairman, and editor in chief of The New Republic (TNR) magazine, that Liberal bastion, is an authentic, even quintessential Liberal himself. For a number of months...
View ArticleSecretive group aims for Iran regime-change
Missing from recent media coverage of the Bush administration's preparations for a military strike against Iran is any mention of the State Department's accelerated campaign for regime change in Iran,...
View ArticleConfessions of an 'Exx-Con'
Global-warming alarmists take it for granted that they have the "scientific consensus" on their side. The truth is that their views can be as much an article of faith that avoids or elides basic facts....
View ArticleSock Puppet Sinks Pundit - How Lee Siegel's antics made The New Republic...
In recent years, The New Republic, one of the nation's leading magazines of political and cultural commentary, has been embarrassed by scandals involving two of journalism's original sins: fabrication...
View ArticleCan Fred Thompson Win in 2008? (3 part series on Lefty Mag TNR)
Last week every Republican presidential candidate with hopes of emerging as "The True Conservative" in the race--Mitt Romney, Sam Brownback, Duncan Hunter, and Ron Paul--traveled to Kansas City to...
View ArticleA STATEMENT FROM SCOTT THOMAS BEAUCHAMP: (TNR's diarist comes clean)
A STATEMENT FROM SCOTT THOMAS BEAUCHAMP: As we've noted in this space, some have questioned details that appeared in the Diarist "Shock Troops," published under the pseudonym Scott Thomas. According to...
View ArticleBeauchamp Investigation Concluded ["Refuted by Members of his Platoon...
After a thorough investigation that lasted nearly a week the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division has concluded that the allegation made by Private Thomas Scott Beauchamp, the...
View ArticlePvt. [Scott Thomas]Beauchamp: Proud of Being Ashamed?
In a famous passage in his Confessions, St. Augustine admits that as a young boy he ran with a bad crowd and fabricated stories to impress his friends. I was ashamed among other youths that my...
View ArticleA STATEMENT ON SCOTT THOMAS (TNR Editors Respond)
We've talked to military personnel directly involved in the events that Scott Thomas Beauchamp described, and they corroborated his account as detailed in our statement. When we called Army spokesman...
View ArticleAuthor Tells U.S. Army He Made Up Stories Published in New Republic
The Weekly Standard has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp -- author of the much-disputed "Shock Troops" article in the New Republic's July 23...
View ArticleMy Time In Iraq [ExileStreet] -An Attempt at Post-Modern Journalism
Bottom Line: Following the standards of journalism adopted by The New Republic and by my post-modern colleagues in the Academy, I have decided to report on my experiences in Iraq. Now I have never been...
View ArticleSHOCK DOCS: THE NEW REPUBLIC 'SHOCK TROOPS' STORY COLLAPSES
SHOCK DOCS: THE NEW REPUBLIC 'SHOCK TROOPS' STORY COLLAPSESWED Oct 24 2007 12:29:44 ET The DRUDGE REPORT has optained internal documents from the investigation of THE NEW REPUBLIC'S "Baghdad Diarist",...
View ArticleHemingway, Under Glass (UPDATE: TNR Shut Down Beauchamp)
Matt Drudge has announced his acquisition of documents from the Army investigation into allegations of misconduct made by Private Scott Beauchamp, and they make The New Republic look like the Nixon...
View ArticleFoer's Folly Finally Falls Flat {The New Republic}
It took four months of dodging, ducking, bobbing, and weaving, but bloggers have finally pinned Franklin Foer and The New Republic to the mat. Yesterday afternoon, Foer's online edition of the magazine...
View ArticleFoer of Fog
Remember Scott Beauchamp? The soldier who wrote stories from the Middle East, about things like mocking a disfigured woman in a chow hall, running over a dog and wearing pieces of baby skull under...
View ArticleA double standard? (Barf Alert)
TNRs Noam Scheiber had an interesting item the other day, gaming out possible post-Iowa-caucus scenarios, and describing the various paths Democratic candidates have to the nomination. First, the...
View ArticleSlouching Toward Denver: The Democratic death march
When Democrats contemplate the apocalypse these days, they have visions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton slugging it out à la Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter at the 1980 convention. The campaign's...
View ArticleDid the U.S. Turn Socialist Just Because Obama Won?
TNRs Chait gets it wrong thinking Americans are all nouveau left-wingers just because Barack Obama won the White House Jonathan Chait is all upset at the Democratic Party. Hs is damning their eyes for...
View ArticleGlenn Beck Smashes Ratings Record
Although Glenn Beck's hit Fox News show doesn't even air during prime time, he is generating huge prime-time-like numbers at 5 p.m. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that, despite a liberal group's "boycott"...
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