July/August 2010

Almost three years ago, at Josh Muravchik’s suggestion, I called Lawrence Kaplan, then a senior editor at the New Republic, to ask if he might be interested in helping to reinvigorate and relaunch World Affairs. Founded in 1837, the journal had had a mostly distinguished hundred and seventy years of service in the battle of ideas advocating an internationally engaged America, committed to defending and expanding the borders of freedom. But, by the time Lawrence and I first met in July 2007, this once proud publication, like most of the forty struggling journals at Heldref Publications, had in the prior fifteen years or so suffered a sad, slow-motion decline into benign irrelevance. ... Read More