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Talk of the Nation

''Yes, The Nation is ideological in that we have a set of political values that we share with our readers and that's are starting point,'' says the magazine's publisher, Victor Navasky. But the view that left-liberal publications are humorless, he argues, ''is held only by people who don't read us.''

By Drake Bennett

June 19, 2005

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The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine - and to this day, the unreconstructed voice of the span of political spectrum that runs leftward from liberal. But to hear Victor Navasky tell it, the magazine's future has rarely been secure. ''When I got there in 1978 it had lost money basically for every year since 1865. We were told there ... (Full article: 1119 words)