and also not viewing political fashions as the highest authority, not viewing ideology as not being sort of idolatrous in our relationship to cultural or ideological trends as freed up a space, a sort of skeptical, interested space. You know, you took the words out of my mouth because that was going to be my next question. Which is, I wonder if part of what explains Tablet's success is its grounding in tradition and in an identity that is less swayable or less swayed by the ebbs and flows of modernity and a lot of the reactionary culture of today? I think that's exactly right. But at the same time, you know, in terms of what we cover, Tablet is now more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. So a decade ago, the kinds of stories you would find on Tablet were, let's say, more straightforwardly, obviously Jewish in terms of their themes and subjects. You know, there was still political writing, there was still investigative reporting, all of that was still happening, but within a narrower and (9/44)
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