I don’t give a damn about New Yorker editor David Remnick inviting and then disinviting Steve Bannon to the magazine’s Festival of Ideas.
Don’t care. Don’t. Care.
All those words from Remnick… explaining…. ย triangulating…. finding “a better way” after listening so deeply and in an appropriately heartfelt manner to his staff and readers and other invited guests who thought it outrageous that The New Yorker would give its august platform (and an honorarium!) to an extremist, racist, dangerous thinker? (I use “thinker” generously.)
That the cancellation happened literally within minutes of Judd Apatow then John Mulaney then Jim Carrey then Patton Oswalt and likely every other left-leaning Hollywood personality pulling out of the festival on a lazy Labor Day Monday is probably a coincidence.