Todd Gitlin on Marty Peretz

Todd Gitlin:

This Manichaean Moment: When the margins crawl with insanity, it is all the more important for the vital center of calm, reasonable, evidence-based thought to hold. But some minds that ought to know better are cowed, while others are playing with fire. When Martin Peretz, the editor-in-chief of this magazine, declared that “Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims,” and “wonder[ed:] whether I need honor these people ['those Muslims led by the Imam Rauf':] and pretend that...