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The New Republic Reader: Eighty Years of Opinion and Debate, edited by Dorothy Wickenden (Basic, 518 pp., $28)

WE ENGLISH think of your magazine The New Republic as the American equivalent of our own lefty New Statesman. Confronted by a fat anthology of New Republic wit and wisdom, we would expect to find in it many of the characteristic pungent and unappetizing ingredients of New Statesmanship and New Statecraft. What are these? To list a few at random:

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The New Republic Reader: Eighty Years of Opinion and Debate, edited by Dorothy Wickenden (Basic, 518 pp., $28)

WE ENGLISH think of your magazine The New Republic as the American equivalent of our own lefty New Statesman. Confronted by a fat anthology of New Republic wit and wisdom, we would expect to find in it many of the characteristic pungent and unappetizing ingredients of New Statesmanship and New Statecraft. What are these? To list a few at random: