Well, yeah, he keeps coming back to that former Congressman, sometime Republican thing in the article, but to be fair it's not how he actually signed it.
I guess he was pretty much right about the different cases, but it seems like he's milking the controversy to get his name out there. Too much "I" in the article.
FWIW Check out the link: Shakeup at The New Republic: Foer, Wieseltier out; mag moves to N.Y. Rearranging the deckchairs?
You think that Trayvon Martin was shot merely because he was black? Did you see Miss Rachel Jeantel's testimony?