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Peter Savodnik: I Was Wrong About John Fetterman
Senator John Fetterman on Capitol Hill last month. (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Plus: Eli Steele on the mediocrity of Harvard president Claudine Gay. And Israeli ‘SNL.’
By Oliver Wiseman
12.13.23
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“I thought I knew who John Fetterman was,” writes my colleague Peter Savodnik of the progressive senator in our first piece today. To be more precise, Peter thought Fetterman was “a rich kid pretending to be a working-class stiff.” But after October 7, Peter has decided he got Fetterman wrong. “I mean totally, indefensibly, unbelievably wrong.”

Not only …

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Oliver Wiseman
Oliver Wiseman is the deputy editor of The Free Press. Previously, he was the executive editor of The Spectator World and a regular contributor to UnHerd, City Journal, the Evening Standard, and a range of other publications.
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