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What is the name of the author who wrote the article "The New Republic and the Art of the Shit-Smear"?
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The author of the article is Dale Peck. Peck smeared the walls with shit, and bankrupted their authority for all time to come. So many forms of extremism turn into their opposite at the terminal stage. Thus "The New Republic"s supposed brief for dry, austere, high-literary value—manifesting itself for years in a baffled rage against everything new or confusing—led to Peck's auto-therapeutic wetness