The New Republic ‘s Peter Beinart Cans His First Editor
Just call him the Butcher Boy. On Nov. 1, just weeks after becoming the editor of The New Republic , Peter Beinart, 28, fired someone: senior editor Jacob Heilbrunn.
Mr. Heilbrunn is older than Mr. Beinart–he’s 34–and was known as the “liberal hawk” of the New Republic staff, according to one of his friends. (This Read More