Foer's Mission

Don’t try to bring back the “Kinsley era.” Make the magazine about ideas, but don’t break icons for the sake of being iconoclastic, which is another way of saying, “Don’t think anybody is going to be impressed because they’re encountering a Weekly Standard idea in your pages.”

Shafer thinks that, under Peter Beinart, the magazine became a “Joe Lieberman Weekly: daring in its audacity but of more interest to Republicans than Democrats, the magazine’s traditional constituency.”