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I’d protest that this book has never been about opposing the New York Times but about pursuing the same mission to which the paper is dedicated—unearthing the truth. But no matter how wholehearted it was, the strength of that argument could not overcome an evidently widespread fear of the cultural and political behemoth that is the New York Times.

Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

Premium mediocrity, by his definition, is a fancy tile backsplash in an apartment’s tiny, nearly nonfunctional kitchen, or french fries doused in truffle oil, which contains no actual truffles. It’s Uber Pool, which makes the luxury of being chauffeured around town financially accessible, yet requires that you brush thighs with strangers sharing th... See more

Amanda Mull • It’s All So … Premiocre

We are confused, or maybe divided is a better word, as to whether they are national champions in competition over the spaces that will define the rest of the 21st century or whether they are villains that are threatening consumers’ privacy, rational dialogue and civility, and our public culture

Jessica Lessin • Larry Summers on Trump’s ‘Tragic Precedent,’ TikTok and Regulation

the traditionalists who “resisted the cultural changes set into motion during the sixties” and “identified with the normative Americanism of the 1950s” seemed to have lost the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s.

Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

Classical Liberalism has had a good run. Now it’s about to get run over by a bus full of stupid “post-capitalist” political trends—the new socialism, the new nationalism, the new trade war mercantilism, and the new social media platforms that drive this bus.

P.J. O'Rourke • A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land

If we don’t change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where “there’s going to be an upper class of people that are very aware” of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with “fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they’re going to be living more and

Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

Opinion: "Without leaders who, through their example and decisions, safeguard our norms and celebrate them and affirm them and reinforce them, the words on paper — the Bill of Rights, the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence — will never unite us.”"

Opinion | How We’ve Lost Our Moorings as a Society

The New York Times was built with a very different standard in mind than the one embraced by the creators of The 1619 Project, who look at truth as a malleable substance, a “construct,”

Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

But police violence, and Trump’s daily assaults on the presidential competence standard, are only part of the disaster. On the other side of the political aisle, among self-described liberals, we’re watching an intellectual revolution. It feels liberating to say after years of tiptoeing around the fact, but the American left has lost its mind. It’s... See more

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Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

Amanda Mull • It’s All So … Premiocre

Jessica Lessin • Larry Summers on Trump’s ‘Tragic Precedent,’ TikTok and Regulation

Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

P.J. O'Rourke • A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land

Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

Opinion | How We’ve Lost Our Moorings as a Society

Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

Matt Taibbi • The American Press Is Destroying Itself - Reporting by Matt Taibbi