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Hello Quilletters,
Another week, another defenestration. This time it’s Ian Buruma, forced to resign his post as editor of the
New York Review of Books
after publishing an essay written by Jian Ghomeshi—a disgraced Canadian radio journalist who was acquitted on several charges of sexual assault back in 2016. Buruma said in
Slate
:
I’m no judge of the rights and wrongs of every allegation. How can I be? All I know is that in a court of law he was acquitted, and there is no proof he committed a crime. The exact nature of his behaviour—how much consent was involved—I have no idea, nor is it really my concern.
Views on the news, delivered in twos.
On social, so many so-called progressives will loudly proclaim their virtue
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