John R. MacArthur Is a Disgrace
The Harper’s publisher’s latest column, about a controversy at The New York Times, goes out of its way to use an ugly racial slur.
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Is there a more embarrassing column on the internet than the Publisher’s Note at
Harper’s? This is where you can find the addled musings of John “Rick” MacArthur, the mercurial proprietor of what was once one of this country’s most influential liberal magazines but in recent years has taken a reactionary turn in response to the social justice movements on the left specifically the #MeToo movement, of which MacArthur is an outspoken opponent, but also identity-based politics more broadly. MacArthur was the proud publisher of the so-called
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…1 in 5 children are in poverty, 22 000 on social housing wait lists and entire generations have been priced out of ever owning a home.
The promise of democracy is you can look into the face of your child and know they will get a better deal than you did, when you can no longer do that, the promise of democracy becomes bankrupt.
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By 2015, this number was reduced to only 62 individuals
In 2018, it was 42
In 2019, it was down to only 26 individuals who own more wealth than 3.8 billion people.
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The Rev. Will Campbell was forced out of his position as director of religious life at the University of Mississippi in 1956 because of his calls for integration. He escorted Black children through a hostile mob in 1957 to integrate Little Rock s Central High School. He was the only white person that was invited to be part of the group that founded Martin Luther King Jr. s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He helped integrate Nashville s lunch counters and organize the Freedom Rides.
But Campbell was also, despite a slew of death threats he received from white segregationists, an unofficial chaplain to the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. He denounced and publicly fought the Klan s racism, acts of terror and violence and marched with Black civil rights protesters in his native Mississippi, but he steadfastly refused to cancel white racists out of his life. He refused to demonize them as less tha