Student Journalism Solidarity March

Jamie Kirchick forwarded this story to me and the YDN's EiC and managing editors, suggesting they run a masthead editorial supporting the U of Ill Urbana-Champaign editors who are in danger of being sacked for reprinting the Intoonfada toons. What oneiric geography have we been teleported to? Reprinting the cartoons is a necessary part of any complete documentary account of the controversy. I believe the Spanish Inquisitors shared the view that there was a purpose to discussing content that shall not be discussed. As for the rest of us....

By contrast, the University of North Carolina is providing an exemplary model that the New York Times, never mind the YDN, could learn from. Every party to the debate there -- even the Muslim Students Association -- puts Stanley Fish's power-worship poorly dressed as left(ish) intellectualism to shame.