At this point, Hughes has damaged TNR's brand equity irreparably. And the fact of that matter is that their current stable of young writers aren't as talented a

At this point, Hughes has damaged TNR's brand equity irreparably. And the fact of that matter is that their current stable of young writers aren't as talented and don't rise to the high standards that they used to inculcate under, say, Leon Wieseltier. Many of them would be better off writing listicles for Buzzfeed. There's not a whole lot of differentiation between the transcript of a Reggie Watts TED talk and a young TNR staffer's latest hot take.