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American Prospect, The, July, 2005 by Greenberg, David
A MATTER OF OPINION BY VICTOR S. NAVASKY Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 464 pages, $27.00
WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE AND a member of my university's Liberal Party, a common question posed to candidates for party office was a dichotomy: "New Republic or Nation?" (The American Prospect did not yet exist.) Most people didn't hesitate. They picked The New Republic.
The preference wasn't really ideological; we all considered ourselves liberals. In those days The New Republic, alternately edited by Michael Kinsley and Hendrik Hertzberg, brimmed with a sly wit, an ...
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