I fail to see the correlation here.
I have to take that back. They each where/are living in denial and there is a correlation.
Exactly. Duranty was criticized, and rightfully so, because of his denial of the widespread and artificial famine (mass starvation) which took place in the Ukraine from 1932 to 1933.
Mantel is in denial with regard to the problem of the sexual abuse of children. She sees it as a “Catholic” problem rather than as a societal problem.