Technically it’s TNR
The New Republic and
National Review
NR
But yes they have gotten very similar which is weird.....once they were quite different
National Review was just barely left of Bircherism
The New Republic was center to center left....Hubert Humphrey like in my era ..70s-80s
Krauthammer and Kondracke and Free Barnes and PJ O’Rourke all under Marty Peretz tutelage
I subscribed in late 70s......them and the Economist which was more conservative then
It was lib leaning no doubt but at the same time it was a well spring of neoconservatism as well...it contributed to NeoConservatism same as Podhertz or Kristols musings
Now it’s back to being leftist in total I think and even less supportive of Israel
Marty Peretz the long term owner was a Jewish lefty but hawk on Israel...he would not agree with that
It started as a progressive rag in Eugene Debs era I think
National Review is awful now....it’s just rudderless and bitter....unless it gets a firm hand it’s lost
In Buckleys early days it was the gold standard
A good summary.
I used to read The New Republic as well to see what mainstream liberals were interested in. And Commentary.
On the right, National Review, The American Spectator, Human Events. The life of a political junkie pre-internet.
Sometime in the ‘80s Chronicles became my favorite read. Leopold Tyrmand was still in charge. These days I don’t subscribe to even one political magazine.