The New York Times Has ‘Lost Faith in America,’ Says Exiled Editor
A new essay pulls no punches in painting the Gray Lady as a bastion of ‘illiberalism’ and ‘enforced group-think.’

A deep dive indictment by the Economists’s Lexington columnist, James Bennet, of the New York Times paints a damning picture of an American institution that has lost its way.
Mr. Bennet had a front-row seat to the spectacle of institutional capture as the Gray Lady’s editorial page editor between 2016 and 2020. He resigned — forced out by the publisher, A.G. Sulzberger — after the publication of an op-ed from Senator Cotton that prompted an internal revolt at the Times.
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