Midge Decter and the Boys on the Beach

Midge Decter and the Boys on the Beach

Midge Decter has become Commentary‘s specialist in baiting minorities. Some years ago she wrote a book studded with venomous attacks against liberated women. More recently she wrote about a race riot in New York City and the attendant looting in terms of the animalistic behavior of the black rioters. And now she has followed this up with a vicious attack on homosexuals (“The Boys on the Beach,” Commentary, September 1980).

Such soured disdain for the...