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    Martin H. Peretz (/ p ə ˈ r ɛ t s /; born December 6, 1938) is an American former magazine publisher and Harvard University assistant professor. In 1974, he purchased The New Republic, and he later assumed editorial control of the magazine.

  3. May 31, 2024 · In 2015, you wrote a major piece for the New Republic itself, which was kind of exorcising the magazine’s a long history of publishing, well, racist bullshit, which is called “The New Republic‘s Legacy on Race.” Under new ownership, they wanted to grapple with, I guess, what they had done.

  4. Until February 2007, The New Republic was owned by Martin Peretz, New York financiers Roger Hertog and Michael Steinhardt, and Canadian media conglomerate Canwest. [ 14 ] In late February 2007, Peretz sold his share of the magazine to CanWest, which announced that a subsidiary, CanWest Media Works International, had acquired a full interest in ...

  5. Mar 28, 1985 · The magazine has had a long and complicated history. For a moment, at least, the magazine flirted with fascism; but it also had a long and disgusting apologetic relationship to Stalinism during many years, including some when Straight was at its helm.

  6. Martin Peretz, a Harvard lecturer married to an heiress of the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, bought the magazine in 1974. Over the next decades Peretz displayed a talent for mentoring bright young men like Michael Kinsley, Hendrik Hertzberg, Charles Krauthammer, Leon Wieseltier, Andrew Sullivan, Michael Kelly, Peter Beinart, and Franklin Foer.

  7. Sep 20, 2018 · The New Republic found a renewed sense of leadership in Martin Peretz, a former Harvard University intellectual who with his wife bought the magazine in 1974. Peretz engineered what he termed a "politically balanced," pragmatic liberalism for the magazine, disillusioning many of its traditional readers.

  8. Jul 31, 2023 · During the period Marty (as everyone calls him) was editor-in-chief of the magazinefrom 1974, when he bought it, until 2011—it was known as the only major, independent liberal publication that regularly took editorial positions and published articles attacking liberal shibboleths.

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