For much more (but worth it, if you're interested), see this profile of Hughes, from Dec. 2012, in NY Magazine: http://nymag.com/news/features/chris-hughes-2012

For much more (but worth it, if you're interested), see this profile of Hughes, from Dec. 2012, in NY Magazine: http://nymag.com/news/features/chris-hughes-2012-12/ http://nymag.com/news/features/chris-hughes-2012-12/ -- It basically predicts Wieseltier's ouster: "Given that Hughes’s interests are at least as literary as they are political, I found that many of the people I spoke with suspected the real changes at the magazine would come at the expense of Wieseltier—who had his own charmed life as the oldest young man in the room. As the editors came and went at Peretz’s favor, Wieseltier ruled a sort of archipelago of learnedness in the magazine’s back pages—haunted by its own testy thoroughgoing-ness, dense with type and argument, and deliberately off-putting. [...] His culture section, which often made up nearly half of each issue, was supposed to have nothing to do with the rest of the magazine at all. "But Hughes wants a single, readable magazine—with photographs!—not two stapled together, and this will entail treating Wieseltier, as one person familiar with the magazine put it, as an employee for the first time. * Looks like he got treated as an employee all right.