Since publishing its debut column by Bret Stephens, the New York Times has been under siege by angry readers posting screenshots on social media of them canceling their subscriptions. It seems like just a few months ago, subscribing to the Times and even buying its newsroom pizza —you know, in case, reporters wanted a break from the Times‘s gourmet cafeteria—was deemed the ultimate act of patriotism in the Trump era.
Stephens’s objectionable column—which is well worth reading—is about the left’s unhealthy impulse toward blacklisting anyone who doesn’t validate the political and scientific consensus of left-leaning American elites, never mind that we’ve reached a point where precious few people even bother articulating the difference between the two.
