&gt; I worry that the New Republic is too damaged by now -- that it can&#x27;t be what it was before<p>Before what?  Before was Stephen Glass&#x27;s invented anti-black stories (and other invented stories).  Bell Curve are blacks genetically stupider than whites covers.  Or the cover with the smoking welfare queen and her pickaninny - &quot;Day of Reckoning&quot;.  And on and on.  Most of the black writers I follow on Twitter were happy with Hughes changes.  Before it was just a bunch of Jewish self-styled intellectuals who liked to dump on the schwartzes.