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Sen. Tom Cotton, a combat veteran and a leader for sober, law-oriented criminal justice, wrote an op-ed for the NYT<\/a> arguing that, if civilian police were unable or unwilling to restore order to cities ravaged by riots, arson and looting, the military should be called in.\u00a0 Immediately there ensued an uproar inside the Times, which then apologized for running the piece.\u00a0 The Times said the op-ed did not, on reflection, meet its “standards,” never explaining, however, what those standards consist of.\u00a0 It has since become obvious that they consist, not of honest debate\u00a0 —\u00a0 which used to be the standard for the discussion of public issues among opinion leaders\u00a0 —\u00a0 but of abject obedience to the new, “woke” party line of the extreme Left.<\/p>\n

We are left to wonder whether the Times’ apology is the beginning of the end of journalism as we have known it and, even more ominously, of classical liberalism itself, now to be replaced by an updated version of the Cultural Revolution and enforced conformity of thought.\u00a0 Ross Douthat, a committed NeverTrumper, explains why he’s worried.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Tom Cotton, a combat veteran and a leader for sober, law-oriented criminal justice, wrote an op-ed for the NYT arguing that, if civilian police were unable or unwilling to restore order to cities ravaged by riots, arson and looting, the military should be called in.\u00a0 Immediately there ensued an uproar inside the Times, which then apologized for running the piece.\u00a0 The Times said the op-ed did not, on reflection, meet its “standards,” never explaining, however, what those standards consist of.\u00a0 It has since become obvious that they consist, not of honest debate\u00a0 —\u00a0 which used to be the standard for the discussion of public issues among opinion leaders\u00a0 —\u00a0 but of abject obedience to the new, “woke” party line of the extreme Left. We are left to wonder whether the Times’ apology is the beginning of the end of journalism as we have known it and, even more ominously, of classical liberalism itself, now to be replaced by an updated version of the Cultural Revolution and enforced conformity of thought.\u00a0 Ross Douthat, a committed NeverTrumper, explains why he’s worried.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-social-factors"],"yoast_head":"\nTom Cotton's Op-Ed and the Ensuing Gnashing of Teeth - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1340\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tom Cotton's Op-Ed and the Ensuing Gnashing of Teeth - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sen. 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