The New Republicans

Two conservatives -- Roger Hertog and Michael Steinhardt -- come in to bankroll The New Republic and the mag turns even more conservative than ever. You didn't need the Bible Code to see that one coming. I guess that explains TNR's sponsorship of military-industrial complex schmooza-palooza coincides with the date of the magazine's relaunch.

How far the magazine has fallen since the halcyon years of Fred Barnes, Stephen Glass and Ruth Shalit.