What do we do with the art of monsters from the past? Look for ourselves there—in the monstrousness. Look for mirrors of what we are, rather than evidence for how wonderful we’ve become. Looking for ourselves in the monsters of the past can raise some uncomfortable specters: Is it accidental that so much vitriol has been spilt on Woody Allen and Roman Polanski, two Jewish men, one accused, one convicted? Is there an anti-Semitic energy in our vilification of them? After all, the oldest trope of anti-Semitism is: they’re coming to take our children. It’s a question that must be asked, and is
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