The New Republic Is Dead, Thanks To Its Owner - The Washington Post

MILBANK: Chris Hughes 'A Dilettante And A Fraud'

At a 40th birthday party in July for Franklin Foer, editor of the New Republic, the magazine’s young owner, Chris Hughes, got all choked up as he pledged to the roomful of writers at Foer’s country home in Pennsylvania that the two would be “intellectual partners for decades.”

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