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Joel Whitney
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Joel Whitney is a founding editor of Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics. His writing and commentary have appeared recently in The New Republic, The Village Voice, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Paris Review, The Nation, Agni, New York Magazine—and on NPR. In 2003, he was awarded a "Discovery"/The Nation Prize by the 92nd Street Y and The Nation for his poetry.

Blog Entries by Joel Whitney

My Interview with the Columbia Professor Who Says There is No Genocide in Darfur -- It's an Environmental Crisis

Posted May 14, 2009 | 04:44 PM (EST)

"The Save Darfur movement claims to have learned from Rwanda," writes Mahmood Mamdani in his new book, Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror. "But what is the lesson of Rwanda? For many of those mobilized to save Darfur, the lesson is to rescue before it is...

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The New York Sun's Obama Frame-Up

Posted August 16, 2008 | 06:58 PM (EST)

Two months ago, I wrote about The New York Sun's inaccurate attempt to draw ties between Senator Barack Obama and Islamic extremism in Kenya. The chief problem with The Sun's reporting was that while the ties may have been there, the Islamic extremism was definitely not. What The...

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The Mohammad Cartoons Then and Now: Defending Satire

Posted July 14, 2008 | 09:27 PM (EST)

When a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the prophet Mohammad with a bomb in his turban in September 2005, the Muslim community around the world erupted in protest. Police fired on crowds, and dozens died. While some Muslim leaders exhorted demonstrators to remain peaceful, others, like Mahmoud al-Zahar of Hamas,...

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