Early on Monday it was announced that former White House adviser and current white nationalist Steve Bannon would headline the New Yorker Festival. That did not go down well with many readers and some writers of that august magazine. Almost immediately, some of the other scheduled attendees announced that they would pull out if Bannon stayed. By late Monday, New Yorker editor David Remnick had pulled the plug on his invitation to Bannon, explaining that, " I don't want well-meaning readers and staff members to think that I've ignored their concerns. I've thought this through and talked to colleagues — and I've reconsidered. I've changed my mind. There is a better way to do this."
Bannon, in turn, responded with his own statement: "In what I would call a defining moment, David Remnick showed that he was gutless when confronted by the howling mob." Read my Post colleague Erik Wemple for the tick-tock.
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