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Author Bethany McLean also stops by to chat about her latest book, "What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind."

George Orwell, call your office. That’s my initial and slightly out-of-date response to news stories about the Biden administration’s efforts to stamp out “misinformation.” It’s an interesting irony that covert censorship should be undertaken enthusiastically by those who call themselves “liberal” or “progressive” and who claim the opposition would threaten the survival of liberal democracy. […]

It's an interesting irony that covert censorship should be undertaken enthusiastically by those who call themselves 'liberal' or progressive" and who…

 

George Orwell showed how the truth can be suppressed. But the lesson was taught much longer ago in antique prose by James Monroe.

George Orwell, call your office. That’s my initial and slightly out-of-date response to news stories about the Biden administration’s efforts to stamp out “misinformation.”

The Big Fail, Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean’s new book about the pandemic, is an angry book. Rightly so. It decries the way the bien pensant, the…

They had good intentions.  They won the arguments.  But the policies they put into place were colossal failures.  As even many of their former advocates are admitting.

And Hamas releases it's first group of hostages.

I spoke with Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera about their alternate take on what America did.