A lot has been written about The New Republic’s “re-launch” last month under owner (and editor-in-chief) Chris Hughes, the 29-year-old half-billionaire who was a Facebook co-founder, worked on President Obama’s 2008 campaign, and rescued the floundering magazine in 2012. (“Floundering” isn’t meant as a slur, I should note, since few media titles aren’t in that category.) The hoo-hah over TNR’s re-design and re-branding, in The New York Times, New York magazine and Twitter, was excessive, in my opinion, but I’ve no interest in spoiling that party, and will move on to a question I’ve wondered about and haven’t seen discussed as of this writing.
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