April Zhu: Let’s start with the charges. UnHerd columnist Kat Rosenfeld wrote that we editors who resigned in protest had reached with our “hot little hands” for “the censor’s pen.” According to Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple, we were outraged by “the humane reflections of a Jewish woman seeking reconciliation and recovery in her community.” And in The Atlantic , journalist and novelist Phil Klay alleged that by resigning, we had bent our literary magazine to “the narrowest polemical and moralistic approaches to literature.” Sarah Khatry: It’s worth clarifying that each of us chose to resign from our volunteer positions because we believed that Guernica should not have published the piece in the first place. We learned of the essay only after it was published and had no part in its retraction, any more than we did in its solicitation and publication. AZ: In any case, the media metabolized the upheaval of an online literary magazine into a culture war talking point.…