How Politico and the New York Times pass off hawkish opinions as facts
The journalistic ‘voice of God’ is often used to defend interventionist policies or push our leaders to do something about, well, everything.
Robert Wright is the author, most recently of “Why Buddhism is True” (2017) and of “The Evolution of God” (2009), which was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His other books include “The Moral Animal,” which The New York Times Book Review named one of the ten best books of 1994, and “Nonzero,” which Bill Clinton called “astonishing” and instructed White House staff members to read. In 2009 Wright was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the top 100 global thinkers. Wright is a contributing editor at The New Republic and a contributor to Time and Slate. He has also written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy, and the op-ed pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and his awards include the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism. He has taught courses in philosophy and religion at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. He is Visiting Professor of Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York, and is editor-in-chief of the websites Bloggingheads.tv and MeaningofLife.tv.
The journalistic ‘voice of God’ is often used to defend interventionist policies or push our leaders to do something about, well, everything.
Seemingly strict lobbying rules haven’t stopped Biden from recruiting people who spent the Trump years cashing in on their government experience.
Fostering good governance means fighting the xenophobia and crude nationalism that so often poison the political climate that is conducive to it.
This is classic McCarthyism: alleging or insinuating, on the basis of no good evidence, that Americans whose political views you dislike are acting in the service of a foreign power.