Content warning, canceling, de-platforming, denying access: The fate of Sy Hersh’s Democracy Now! interview on YouTube is the latest indication of how…
Patrick Lawrence
Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for The International Herald Tribune, is a columnist, essayist, lecturer and author, most recently of Journalists and Their Shadows. Other books include Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century.
Two of my favorite New York Times words are “shadowy” and “murky.” They are brilliantly suited to the Manichean version of our…
1. Everything you will read in this commentary is disinformation. 2. To say that this commentary contains disinformation is disinformation. 3. To…
I have never gotten over a story The New York Times ran in its Sunday magazine back in May 2016. Maybe you will remember the occasion. It…
I can hardly keep up with the various versions of nonsense coming out of Washington in the matter of Nancy Pelosi’s visit…
To read the mainstream press on what just happened to Evo Morales is to enter a hall of mirrors