While I don’t like to see this happen to anyone, Hunter is a different case: Richwine was attacked because he was conducting important work on the costs of Amnesty. His crime was a thoughtful and provocative, but quite irrelevant, Harvard dissertation.
In contrast, although I am not myself morally outraged by what Hunter said about John Wilkes Booth a decade ago, it was far more impolitic than anything that Richwine, or for that matter other purged conservatives like John Derbyshire or Robert Weissberg, ever wrote or said.
The real scandal for those of us on the Dissident Right: Hunter’s steady retreat from race and immigration.
