It’s tough to defeat a libel charge under British law. But a British judge threw out controversial historian David Irving’s case against the historian Deborah Lipstadt, who had written in a 1993 book that Mr. Irving was “one of the most dangerous spokesmen for Holocaust denial.” Remarkably, the judge went so far as to call Irving a racist anti-Semite who deliberately distorts historical evidence to portray Hitler “in an unwarrantedly favorable light.” – New York Times