The Nation, September 20th, 1993
This what is known in the trade as an advetrorial--an advertisement in the guise of an editorial. Normally, we deplore advertorials because they blur the line between commerce and culture, the pursuit of cash and the pursuit of truth. But in the case of In These Times, founded as an independent democratic socialist weekly, it is precisely the intrusion of cash (or rather the lack thereof) into culture that has created the magazine's current crisis. In a letter to I.T.T. supporters, founder/publisher/editor Jim Weinstein reports that the magazine is at an existential crossroads. It must either...
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