To Invite (or Not to Invite) Steve Bannon
Two magazines show that the question of how—or even whether—to engage incendiary figures remains very much unsettled.
Two magazines planned to host events to interview newsmakers in front of audiences. Both invited the former White House chief strategist, and incendiary populist ideologue, Steve Bannon. Both faced nearly immediate backlash—outraged tweets, threatened dropouts from invited speakers. Both published statements explaining the invitation.
But that’s where the similarities stopped. On Monday night, less than 24 hours after revealed that Bannon would g its annual festival, the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, that the former executive was no longer invited—a decision Bannon slammed as “.” The next day, ’s editor, Zanny Minton Beddoes, issued her own to say that Bannon’s invitation to
