During an appearance on “The Fifth Column” podcast earlier this month, media personality Megyn Kelly made a revelatory admission: She would not condemn antisemitism by political commentators and podcasters Tucker Carlson or Candace Owens.

Her reasons? Carlson, she said, “is a friend,” and she doesn’t believe that he is antisemitic. Owens, she explained, is a “young mom” of three kids, and she’s under “a lot of pressure.” Most strikingly, Kelly emphasized that her “real battle” is with the left, not the right, even when figures on the right indulge in antisemitic conspiracies or rhetoric.

This isn’t empathy. This is moral confusion, and it’s dangerous.

Kelly’s stance reflects a broader sickness in American discourse, the tendency to excuse evil, or at least ignore it, when it comes from

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