Okay I admit, since Hitchens (my personal iconic iconoclast) left, I haven't read the Nation with any regularity. They are not as adamantly contemptuous of the Democrats as you are, but they sure didn't want to have their baby, either.

National Review is more in bed with Republicans than Nation with Democrats. I think that's because the National Review is more mainstream than Nation, but I assume you'd say that they're all too establishmentarian?

Z, I'm torn on that one.

For intellectual purity's sake I'd love for Reason to continually castigate National Review and Repos everywhere. Equally, I'd love for some SWP rag to go after Nation and the Demos. But in the greater scheme of things, most of society, unlike you and me, are not extremist ideologues and could care less about National Review or Nation, nevermind the rags with some purity.

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