If you haven’t followed this story, you should. It’s the rare development in the news that you can feel almost entirely good about. Although TNR is a liberal journal, and not quite representative of my picture of reality, the staff is talented, and Wieseltier can be brilliant. If you haven’t read his column on Thomas Nagel’s book Mind & Cosmos, blasting “Darwinist dittoheads,” you should read that too.
Read it all while it is still free and available. Maybe there isn’t any new republic any more.
The moment some fellow figures it out, he’s toast, and the “aren’t I good?” girls – male and female – all chime in. It’s your world, if you want it.