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In the midst of a war and an unprecedented space mission, Britain’s news media have room today for a more everyday news story: the decision by a music festival to cancel the headlining appearance by Kanye West. Ye, as he likes to be known now, has a history of anti-semitic actions—releasing a song called “Heil Hitler” and selling T-shirts emblazoned with swastikas. In response to the cancellation, the rapper said those actions were the result of his bipolar disorder. And the media go no further in discussing his behavior.

But West is not just a disturbed individual setting fire to his bedclothes. He is in show business, he is surrounded by a bevy of agents, managers, record-company executives—none of them, as far as I know, suffering from either bipolar disorder or inability to speak. Issuing records and merch is, at West’s level, anything but a one-man operation. All of these folks had to sign off on “Heil Hitler” and swastikas. We have heard not a peep from them, or even a peep about them. We are peepless.