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Not-so-free inquiry

Indigo is at it again. After making headlines for pulling the recent issue of Harper’s that featured Art Spiegelman’s cartoons and article in response to the Danish Muhammad Cartoons situation, the chain has dropped Free Inquiry, a humanist magazine, reports the Toronto Star‘s Antonia Zerbisias on her blog.

It’s an intriguing decision, especially considering that Quillblog was able to buy a copy of the April/May Free Inquiry that featured the actual Danish Muhammad Cartoons at The World’s Biggest Bookstore in Toronto, just a couple days after Harper’s was pulled. In a letter that Zerbisias excerpts, the mag’s editors don’t seem to know why Indigo has done this. “Presumably the controversial item was not Edward O. Wilson and Arthur C. Clarke, among others, congratulating one of us on attaining his eightieth year. Was it scholar Eileen McDonagh’s presentation of a novel defense of abortion rights? Or perhaps the article by controversial ethicist Peter Singer defending the cartoons and condeming the jailing of David Irving for Holocaust denial?” Zerbisias thinks it’s the last one — she sets that line in bold on her blog.

Related links:
Click here for Zerbisias’s entry
Click here for Peter Singer’s piece from Free Inquiry

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