Sublime

Hillary Clinton, as I have said, was the candidate of the technocracy. She ran for office based on her credentials and vociferously spoke for the oppressed. She won the popular vote but lost the election because that vote was heavily concentrated in the Northeast and on the West Coast. In other words, she won the heartland of the technocracy and lo

This is where this approach becomes toxic. Only an information outlet with the experience and savvy of a century, like the Times (and, maybe, only the Times itself), could produce an initiative at the level of The 1619 Project. But all that means is that other self-serving, truth-questioning endeavors will meet a lower standard of production. The t

The thought was disquieting—that our identities should be so mutable, and therefore the course of our lives.

mean anything at all. On the front page of the gray old Times, I’m liable to encounter a chatty article about frying with propane gas. CNN lavished hours of airtime on a runaway bride. The magisterial tones of Walter Cronkite, America’s rich uncle, are lost to history, replaced by the ex-cheerleader mom style of Katie Couric. One reason the notion