NOW, THE NATION

You expect the homophobic Weekly Standard to run tasteless cartoons about gay people, playing to stereotypes, ridiculing serious study of homosexual history. But the Nation? I’d say their cartoon of “Babe Lincoln” is worse than the Standard, and the responsibility doesn’t lie with the cartoonist, Robert Grossman (with whom, by the way, I worked happily for many years at The New Republic). It’s an editorial decision and the editors of that allegedly “progressive” magazine won’t offer anything but a weasel apology. Doug Ireland has the cartoon. Here are the complaints. More proof that prejudice knows no ideology.