1. What the hell is happening at the New York Times? I think the larger crisis, going well beyond the argument over the Cotton op ed, is the crack-up of the elite consensus that dominated from 1939 until 1991 (and had a strong afterlife until around 2014).
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8. As an example of what Bennet's genuinely helpful expansion of the political spectrum inside the Times, it's hard to imagine the pre-Bennet Times running
@Vinncent Vincent Bevins's piece on how the liberal world order is built on bloodpic.twitter.com/CBirUuOrRD
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9. But Bennet has had a harder time expanding with right-wing voices, in part because it is harder to find Trumpists who can write non-batshit stuff (one exception is
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10. More broadly, I think the break-up of the elite consensus has led Bennet into a kind of epistemological nihilism. The attitude seems to be "since we can't convince each other with arguments, we can at least entertain each other with hot takes & trolling." Hence Bret Stephens
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11. In short, the fracturing of the New York Times is symptomatic of the larger fracturing of America (or rather the reality of a fractured America becoming more obvious in an age of protests). More thoughts here:https://www.thenation.com/article/society/racism-new-york-times/ …
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You could also add Michelle Alexander and
@ebruenig. That’s a pretty strong foundation from liberal left feminism to anti racist social democracy to anti liberal socialism.. Maybe you can pull the whole thing together in a longer piece.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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