NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 08: Author Max Boot speaks onstage during The New Yorker Festival 2016 - 'President Trump: Life As We May Know It,' featuring Max Boot, Amy Davidson, Roger Stone, and Sean Wilentz in conversation with Evan Osnos at MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre on October 8, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Anna Webber/Getty Images for The New Yorker)

Max Boot Is Very Sorry for Backing the GOP and the Iraq Invasion. Why Is He Being Praised for This?

The conservative intellectual is forgiven by his media peers for errors of immense and tragic consequence. Boot’s new book is a problem.

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