By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps the most politically incorrect thing you could do in this cancel-culture age, something taking you so far outside the Overton Window that you couldn’t even peek through it, is praise Adolf Hitler. Why, when a couple of schemers in the 1967 black comedy The Producers sought to create a stage musical designed to fail, celebrating Hitler was the very topic they chose.

It’s unknown if The New York Times’ leadership had the movie in mind — to the schemers’ dismay, their production became an unexpected comic hit — when making a recent move: rehiring a Hitler-praising journalist. What’s for sure in this case, especially now that the paper is defending its decision, is that no one is laughing.

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