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Five days later, and that 150th anniversary party The Atlantic threw for itself last week -- the one where regular people were allowed to watch from the cheap seats while the real guests mingled on stage -- is still getting made fun of.

Gawker called it "the social disaster of the season."

New York magazine asked: "Can The Atlantic possibly believe that people, even readers, would want to watch journalists frolicking in their natural habitat?"

And one disenfranchised party-goer told Media Mob: "This is the strangest event I've ever been to."  read more »

The Atlantic Monthly has just published a poll of "foreign-policy authorities" on U.S. support of Israel. I can't get access to the whole poll but the teaser is exciting: 62 percent of these wise men say that the Bush Administration's support for Israel is "too strong."

How exciting. Thus the Atlantic Monthly endorses the conventional wisdom proffered by Foreign Policy last summer. A conventional wisdom mobilized in some real measure by brave Walt and Mearsheimer, whose piece the Atlantic killed a year ago. A conventional wisdom that isolates the neocons and Commentary, which labelled Walt and M "jackals." Maybe the jackal paradigm is shifting? Ask the hyenas.

At the Atlantic Monthly's State of the Union party Tuesday night, Jim Fallows conducted a little presidential poll of the roughly 60-member audience, a kind of money-media-power elite blend.

The question: "Who is the likely Democratic nominee for President?"

To my correspondent's surprise, 32% picked Mark John Warner; only 25% said Hillary Rodham Clinton. (More evidence of Clinton political brilliance! It was, after all, getting to be about time to shed that "frontrunner" albatross.)

On the Republican side, a full 62% (a number that no doubt included Georgette Mosbacher, who was in the audience) said John McCain will be the GOP nominee.

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