Time to end the discussions of The New Republic as cultural phenomenon.  They were okay for a week or so after Foer and Wieseltier got sacked but enough already.   Quit the hand wringing.  Save your mental energy for debating the pieces which get published in it.   Better yet, save your mental energy for reading journals with superior content, e.g., Harper’s, The New Yorker, The American Prospect.

PS  Ta-Nehisi Coates’, The New Republic:  An Appreciation, should have been the end-all for TNR think pieces.