Detail of the NYT building’s 8th Avenue sign, shot with a 60mm Micro-Nikkor. Kevin Prichard Photography, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Jim Naureckas / Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) The phrase “a decent left” comes from Dissent editor Michael Walzer’s piece “Can There Be a Decent Left?” (Spring/02), which chided progressives for not supporting the invasion of Afghanistan—which led to a 20-year occupation that killed a quarter of