At this point, Hughes has damaged TNR&#x27;s brand equity irreparably. And the fact of that matter is that their current stable of young writers aren&#x27;t as talented and don&#x27;t rise to the high standards that they used to inculcate under, say, Leon Wieseltier. Many of them would be better off writing listicles for Buzzfeed.<p>There&#x27;s not a whole lot of differentiation between the transcript of a Reggie Watts TED talk and a young TNR staffer&#x27;s latest hot take.