Nuzzi is the type of journalist who treats politics as offering entertaining characters, and zero stakes or substance.

She has had a remarkably successful career within that particular genre.

Her self-immolation, along with this vacuous memoir, illustrates the genre’s limits.

At a completely technical level, that is bad writing.

I didn’t realize how the supposedly materialist left is always happy to make red-green alliances with religious fundamentalists, even though it invariably results in the leftists being purged brutally by the Islamists. Live and learn, I guess.

I think the point is to hate Jews, and the justification itself is entirely fungible.