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Conservative: Anna Wintour, Spare Us the Show

As the Met Gala moves to honor John Galliano after he spent years atoning for antisemitic outbursts in 2011, Commentary’s Seth Mandel declares: “If the two options are ‘Let Galliano have his day in the sun’ or ‘Let Galliano have his day in the sun but with a fashion-based exhibition on anti-Semitism curated by Anna Wintour,’ my vote is for the former” — and not just because “I don’t trust Wintour to teach these important lessons about Jew-hatred.” Rather, “absolution” should come at the end of a long process — something that “gets skipped” in “the current political moment.” So: “If Galliano’s apologies have been accepted in some broad sense, then we don’t need a fashion show about his Nazi blackouts.” “Let the fashion world follow its exuberant heart wherever it leads it, so long as the Jews aren’t props in the show.”

From the right: How To Blunt Legal Pot

“For the first time on record,” notes Charles Fain Lehman at The Free Press, “more Americans consume marijuana every day than smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol every day” — but that doesn’t make pot legalization politically irreversible, because daily users account for 80% of all pot consumption. That makes marijuana more like “cigarettes: something mostly consumed by a small number of chronically dependent users,” not a drug “widely consumed by infrequent, recreational consumers.”........

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