In a highly unusual move, the trustees of the City University of New York voted on Monday to deny an honorary degree to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Nation editorial board member Tony Kushner.
The vote came after a CUNY trustee, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, said that Kushner had disparaged the State of Israel in past comments, a characterization that Kushner passionately disputed in a moving and angry open letter he released to the CUNY trustees. Download the full text of Kushner’s letter below.
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Click here to download the PDF of Tony Kushner’s letter to CUNY Trustees
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To read Kushner’s "A Socialism Of the Skin," one of his seminal essays for The Nation, click here.
