Just think of how pissed off AG Sulzberger must be about those covert changes to the 1619 Project to have (presumably) signed off on Bret Stephens' double-plus-length column eviscerating it, knowing full well how much it would antagonize the leftward portion of the staff.
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Jeet Heer Retweeted David Klion
Bret Stephens is the last person in the world who should be complaining about covert editing.https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1314958962979155969 …
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His column on 1619 was 100% on the money. Who makes the argument doesn't change the validity of the argument.
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Yep. The stealth edits are really beside the point. That is not his main thesis at all. And they don’t really matter. We know they are just slipping that part back behind the curtain because fanatics lack prudence.
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Meh. This is an argument against non-historians intervening in historical debates. But that happens all the time, to the benefit of history. The Times frequently praises works of history written by journalists, politicians and other non-academics.
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Not really. It’s about journalists who haven’t reflected upon what a founding is and probably aren’t really aware that it is a longstanding topic in political thought. I agree with you that the historians angle isn’t that interesting. But Brett does get to the deeper question.
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You understand that not everyone shares this idea of a "founding" -- it's a matter of interpretation, not fact. And there have always been skeptics about the American Revolution. Samuel Johnson's "Taxation No Tyranny" makes profound points.
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