You don't have to believe in a naive worldview where the NYT supposedly used to be a principled newspaper in order to want people to behave more decently toward

You don't have to believe in a naive worldview where the NYT supposedly used to be a principled newspaper in order to want people to behave more decently toward one another. There's always been things you can't say at the NYT. The new orthodoxy just represents a changing of the guard. America never was the place we tell ourselves that it was. Ask a socialist in the 50's about our noble tradition of free speech. We should fight to make our world the ideal that it never was, but that doesn't mean we have to buy old lies about who we used to be.