Alternative Shorter Anne Applebaum: I applaud the laudable Swiss referendum that uses a bigoted minaret ban to address an threat that is entirely non-existent in their country. Indeed, I'm so proud of the irrational racism of their attacking-Muslim-architecture policy that I can almost forgive them...
Anne Applebaum
In today's edition, Anne Applebaum attempts to further explain the many complexities that make it "outrageous" that someone who raped a 13-year-old and fled the authorities after pleading guilty was.
Incredibly, Applebaum's followup to her original contribution on the Polanski rape is even more clueless and offensive than the original:Of course, there were some very legitimate disagreements, including two excellent.