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Chait Speech, Part Two

| @jpodhoretz 06.17.2009 - 5:52 PM

Jonathan Chait thinks my “rebuttal” of his blog item about Robert Kagan is lacking. That’s because it was not a rebuttal; rather, I was making a point about the bizarre nature of publishing a rather personal and ad hominem attack on someone who is on the masthead of his own publication. If Chait wishes to explain why that conduct is appropriate, that would be interesting to read. It would be one thing if, sharing Chait’s disgust with the argument posed by Kagan, the magazine’s editor, Martin Peretz, removed Kagan from the masthead and then let Chait have at him. But short of that, one might think Chait would owe a colleague a minimal measure of respect. Or is that expecting too much?

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