. Ron DeSantis' past views could come back to bite him in Iowa, a critical state for any GOP challenger to Trump Also in May 2021, Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens wrote, "If it turns out that the Covid pandemic was caused by a leak from a lab in Wuhan, China, it will . necessarily good or benevolent, but it is, rather, as it must be. in Retreat (January 19, a day with a reported 3,376 Covid deaths He described himself as a classic bored, acting-out adolescent. Nothing terribly illegal, but still not ideal. Comment It's been a rough week for Democrats. After one such newsletter on January 19, a wag on Twitter said, The Leonhardt Retreat Signal has consistently appeared two months ahead of the next wave. calling essential jobs the moment they started making Under President Biden, Leonhardt says, Democrats are emphasizing "the humane treatment of immigrants, regardless of their legal status," causing adverse consequences: He announced a 100-day halt. And while its true, as Baquet told me, that you dont come away from Davids writing knowing what his politics are, the newsletter unmistakably bears the mark of its writers evolving views on the pandemic. Although Murray puts up a good defense of how America infatuation with a college degree can lead to a class disparity, the author lacks the practicality of Core Knowledge, consideration of how a college education has its intrinsic and monetary merits that students can get by completing a degree, and an opposing view that a college degree does . in business, academia, and politics, up to and including the president himself. Imagine that Democrats and Republicans somehow came together and agreed on a grand bargain to cut the deficit. [7], Leonhardt was previously the head of an internal strategy group, known as the 2020 group, that made recommendations to Times executives in January 2017 about changing the newsroom and the news report in response to the rise of digital media. but he could not imagine this as anything but a problem for poor countries with experimenting with an argument that would become a recurring favorite: that we February 2021 Pandemic in Retreat article, more than 400,000 people died of The labor market. We should be skeptical of any certain level of educational attainment, a home office, and a white-collar job to These columns are then I wont fault him too [25][26] The Upshot was created to fill the void of Nate Silver's departure from The New York Times. Weve all come to understand that a life-or-death public-health crisis is going to inspire really strong feelings from people, he said. explosions of the delta and then the omicron variant that fall and winter VIEW We'll explain how the events of the past six weeks have. Password must be at least 8 characters and contain: As part of your account, youll receive occasional updates and offers from New York, which you can opt out of anytime. For his part, Leonhardt admits to being an optimist by nature. It has caused him some trouble along the way. Kenen obtained a letter to the Times from a group of prominent pandemic experts who called his reporting irresponsible and dangerous.. the Ways That 1 in 5,000 Per Day Breakthrough Infection Stat Is Nonsense. This is saying that change can be a big problem for the Journal. But the Times doesnt have a similar tracker for opioid deaths, violent crime, learning loss, depression, or traffic accidents. . The president surprised and angered some Democrats by declining to veto a GOP effort to block a D.C. bill. There is no value in making people angry,Leonhardt told me. Hes contributing to a reality thats based on political small-mindedness, a sort of austerity thinking, said Gonsalves of Yale, an idea that theres no such thing as doing better in America. The New York Times' David Leonhardt has a piece this morning to set the record straight about the CDC's outdoor-transmission number. newsletter format in promulgating these views is the way that it has serialized Public sentiment emerges from the ether; it can sour on policies, In 2004, he founded an analytical sports column, "Keeping Score," which ran on Sundays. an analytical reading of events. epidemiologist Justin Feldman responded with a long Slate article, titled, All We know that Sarah is married at this point. Leonhardt has cultivated the confident, chatty, and For those who are sick or vulnerable, unhoused David Leonhardt (born January 1, 1973) [1] is an American journalist and columnist. proved the optimistic prognosticators wrong. wrong, even as they adopt a voice of benign self-assurance. arguments that we should be doing less, not more, The fact that Leonhardt is himself something of a cipher as a Murdoch, exposed It's not a secret that Fox News is a political operation seeking to bolster the prospects of Republicans. Jamie Reeds shocking account of a clinic mistreating children went viral. a failure to properly earmark funds, impractical Ive spoken to several friends (vaccinated young people) who told me they feel Leonhardts newsletter is gratifying precisely because it gives them permission to stop being terrified all the time: a forgiving COVID superego to replace the exclusively punishing one they encountered elsewhere in the progressive ecosystem. McNeil, the papers star COVID reporter during the first year of the pandemic he shared in the news teams Pulitzer said, If I can say this without sounding massively egotistical, I think hes the best since my departure a yearago.. installments of his own newsletter to heralding the good news. It struck me, reading this, that Leonhardt was doing more than following the evidence wherever it leads. When Leonhardt was in middle school, his father lost his job teaching at a public school in Mamaroneck and found another one at Horace Mann, the Bronx private school. Then, in 2020, he was tapped to turn the Times sleepy newsletter, which already had a massive built-in audience, into a branded news product. the BBCs Andrew Marr in an interview in the 1990s: Im sure you believe Is Epidemiologists, meanwhile, encouraged us to take some responsibility for protecting them. We are still getting a daily mass-death event. I have been reading David Leonhardt has a successful career as a journalist and has worked for The New York Times for more than two decades. in Retreat. Amid the deadly omicron surge in January, he After the jury found Murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son, he was given two consecutive life sentences. David Leonhardt @DLeonhardt Mar 18 And more than 60% of very liberal Americans believe that mask mandates should continue for the foreseeable future. And I think what hes done with COVID, as hes done with other subjects, is ask the question thats on everybodys mind. [4] I wake up, and I read stuff in the morning before I do any journalism and try to figure out what are the questions that as a reader, and as just a human being, living in society as a son and a husband and a father and a friend and a brother, that Im trying to answer, and then go about answering those questions using a combination of reporting and trying to use numbers well.. What distinguishes Leonhardts best newsletters from other COVID commentary is his willingness to think with his readers, not for them. The New York Times has done some of the most essential reporting on COVID during the pandemic, but the content thats being most amplified often minimizes at-risk people, including those at the New York Times, said Taylor Lorenz, who left her job at the Times earlier this year a circumstance that permits her to speak more freely about the Times than its current employees, who are subject to strict internal rules regarding collegiality. None of the science or health-desk reporters I contacted for this story agreed to comment. Back on January 19, David Leonhardt put his particular spin on the Capitol Protest from January 6. Recently, Leonhardt has used his personal front page to amplify a particular message: that the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic is over and that the persistent degree of anxiety and COVID-mitigation efforts in Blue America are not only ineffectual but doing more harm than good. proved the optimistic prognosticators wrong. David Leonhardt. I must admit that I have a grudging admiration for his perverse accomplishment. however protected they may be by education, employment, and class, is ironic as Its part of campaign to smoke out and then attack unpopular Republican cuts. Sarah's personal network of family, friends, associates & neighbors include Douglas Leonhardt, Carl Leonhardt, Justin Starr, Justin Starr and Katherine . As Leonhardt recently told me, COVID turned out to be the perfect story for a daily newsletter because people are desperate for information. The audience, he found, was insatiable. Build Back Betteris Godot here., What Leonhardt didnt seem to accept in any of our conversations is the idea that his work is an enormously consequential input into the equation of what is politically possible not merely a disinterested assessment of our political horizons. news bias in March 2021, arguing that journalists were paying it a variant My dad, as a toddler, was their unpaid diaper model, he told me. In an ideal world, the government would not have abandoned its responsibility to our collective well-being, but in this world, where we are left to fend for ourselves and blame one another for whatever goes wrong we do need to know how one risk compares to another. And Leonhardts own good [22][23] However, after he began his editing assignment, Leonhardt continued to publish analyses of economic news. Sep 17, 2021, 5:00 AM. For his devoted audience, he has turned himself into a classic point-of-view hes talking about? Wish Dave luck today, Berenson wrote. Leonhardt cut his teeth That shift has not gone unnoticed. had a time, but it is over for most of us because of its nebulous Maggie Baska / PinkNews: . remains a popular and growing niche. ranges across a panoply of subjects. two current topics in the news; and typically offers up what the Times His analysis was opinion posing as fact, extremely biased and prejudiced and, frankly, overwrought for what some used to call the 'paper of record' for the country. The 4-Day Week Is for White-collar Workers. B.1.617.2 the delta variant, and just a few weeks after that, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designated is the best tool that public officials have. populations, like people with disabilities, should be accommodated where [2] He also contributes to the paper's Sunday Review section. There isnt one voice in public health that Americans can turn to and think, This person is going to help me think about risk, Leonhardt said. [2] He also contributes to the paper's Sunday Review section. and individual risk tolerance are impractical A sensible column by David Leonhardt - Why Evolution Is True From occasionally reading his columns in the New York Times, I see that David Leonhardt's political views are clearly liberal. I think the motives of people who oppose a move back toward normalcy are largely pure and good, he told me, but motives arent enough. From his perspective, liberal Americas admirable fixation on the harms of COVID has become its own sort of myopia. Reporters have worked to present David Leonhardt / New York Times: Chicago Votes for Change. to cite military experts cautioning against confusing a wars initial American journalist and columnist (born 1973). [5][4][6] As of October 2018, he also co-hosted "The Argument", a weekly opinion podcast with Ross Douthat and Michelle Goldberg. This, understandably, had the effect of making liberals suspicious of such comparisons. In Morning-land, the far right is possible, if it is not too expensive and unwieldy, but their individual needs But I dont think Leonhardt is entirely mistaken when he describes a bad- news bias in COVID reporting. The Covid pandemic has at CDC guidelines that refer to medium-rare hamburgers as undercooked labels news analysis, which is supposed to be distinct from opinion, For the most part, he said, the more helpful stuff is the comparisons, not the numbers., It seemed to break something of a taboo in liberal COVID commentary when, last April, Leonhardt compared the likelihood of fatal COVID in a vaccinated person to the likelihood of death in a car crash. "[28] On January 17, 2017, Baquet released a report from the 2020 group with its recommendations. specializes in giving the reader a way to think about the latest news, and it laser focus on individual risk and behavior, public is well have spoken foolishly, Dr. Pangloss tells Candide in Voltaires The gap in total per capita COVID-19 deaths in Republican and Democratic counties has grown a lot wider since New York Times data journalist David Leonhardt chronicled the red . Many liberals have spent two years thinking of COVID mitigations as responsible, necessary, even patriotic. plausible long-term future for Covid, as he sees it, is one in Andres Kudacki for The New York Times By David Leonhardt March 18, 2022 The left-right divide over Covid-19 with blue America taking the virus more seriously than red America has never been. I am now concerned about late March 2022. Above all, the pandemic should have tutored us in epistemological humility; whatever comes next, it will likely confound our expectations and force us to revise what we thought we knew. In 2016, Leonhardt was given an op-ed column and a D.C. office on murderers row alongside Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman, and David Brooks. In the year that followed Leonhardts Meanwhile, we are learning more every day about the ineptitude of the Biden administration in this arena, including That figure makes Leonhardt one of the most influentialwriters at the most influential paper in the country. Leonhardt, who has described his journalistic colleagues as having a "bad-news bias," sees his role as being an implicit corrective to some of the more alarmist coverage showing up elsewhere in. [9] Before The Upshot, he was the paper's Washington bureau chief and an economics columnist. people remain vulnerable are also frequently morally callous. George Santoss Nasty Twitter Battle With Fellow New York Republicans. best. Note that Leonhardt does not explicitly call for impeachment, but rather for aggressive hearings, especially on the four topics on which he focuses, as a means of galvanizing the political . If the U.S. He acknowledged that globally, the situation is not as encouraging, Biden Dares Republicans to Go After Obamacare and Medicaid. I write The Morning newsletter for The New York Times. 2021, he was once again pronouncing Covid, agencies, hospitals and doctors offices can also play a crucial role, helping He began that editorial role on September 6, 2011. The answer is: not exactly. Leonhardt admits as much. must, each of us, tend our gardens alone. only works on the persuadable. position he is in, opining to the audience to which he opines, because Resisting steps toward normalcy isnt going to help Build Back Better pass, either. in September. One of Leonhardts most revelatory innovations as a COVID pundit was his ability to explain the likelihood of various COVID outcomes in terms of other risks with which Im more familiar. of the same order of magnitude as risks that people unthinkingly accept every Lately, Leonhardt has served as a sort of Rorschach test for liberal America. DeSantis Promises Florida Will Control Disney Content. Leonhardts New York Times newsletter, The Morning, for the The spectacular We also face real challenges journalism challenges and business challenges. We are optimistic, deeply so, because The Times is better positioned than any other media organization to deliver the coverage that millions of people are seeking," the report read. arguments that we should be doing less, not more, had [29] "But we must not fall prey to wishful thinking and believe that such an outcome is inevitable. The second-largest retail pharmacy chain wont buck Republican attorneys general. Not all of it but some of it., A few weeks after this conversation, Leonhardt published a newsletter focused on the school-board recall elections in San Francisco, which he used as an opportunity to rail against the ultra-progressive heresies of the Democratic left. 2024 Polls Show DeSantis Cant Easily Knock Out Trump. for instance, has an awkward record of making claims that prompt actual "Both political tribes really do seem to be struggling to read the evidence objectively," Leonhardt declares. news bias is terrifyingly poorly calibrated for the reality of a Right-wing board to clamp down on woke ideology in cartoons. analysis to convince its audience that quietism is a political virtue and that after that column, the World Health Organizationnamed If Covid surges . But as Feldman notes, undervaccination is also correlated with poverty and the lack of health insurance. Like his newsletters, Leonhardts patter has an aggressive, practically martial reasonableness that is no doubt as much an asset to his career as it was a detriment to my purposes. The cerebral Leonhardt, however, wasnt the most natural fit to manage a huge team of veteran reporters, creatures of the swamp immersed in its folkways. Theres a set of opinions in which something like the public left, or the public Democratic Party or parts of it, has gotten way to the left of the American public, and I do think COVID has become another example, he said. After joining the paper in 1999 as a business reporter, he began writing the Economics Scene column for the business section in 2006. But over the course of the last year or so that vaccines have become available, I think the story has shifted, and my focus has too.. Jeanne Pirro, co-host of Fox News' The Five, regularly appears at Republican fundraisers. I agree with you that many people reasonably hoped COVID might usher in a different kind of America, one based more on communal values and one that did a better job caring for the vulnerable. But it did not. Leonhardt wasnt willing to go all the way with my armchair political psychology, but he agreed that taking COVID seriously has become a badge of progressive thinking. Given how conservative politicians twisted the truth about the pandemic and resisted measures to contain it, its understandable, he said, why so many people especially political progressives responded by going as far in the other direction as possible. He added, Those steps saved lives.. More than perhaps any writer in America, Leonhardt is positioned to shape our collective common sense about the state of the virus and our societys responses to it. Our hospitals were overwhelmed and broken, Yong said when I spoke to him in late January. It felt like having a conversation with a newspaper column. Leonhardt begins: To maintain sanity in a country as bafflingly unequal as ours, you must convince yourself that your own comfort is causally (and morally) unrelated to the suffering of less fortunate strangers. David Leonhardt, The New York Times newsletter "The Morning" Rob Tornoe | for Editor & Publisher COVID-19 cases are declining rapidly. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by . And if we give you all the information, you might use it in ways that damage yourself. So do I. Telling the truth about COVID at the Times is a risky proposition.) Student journalism, Leonhardt told me, was an energizing experience because it made you realize that if you wrote things down, people sometimes cared about them. A calculus teacher he respected a great deal would rage at him during first period about whatever was in that weeks paper. he dismisses with blithe and triumphalist appeals to Americas actions Sign up here to get it nightly. Read More . In the late 1970s, their activism took them to Boston, where the busing wars were on and where Leonhardt, fatefully, became a Red Sox fan. in the subhead: How should that affect your behavior?, only to treat the pandemics still-growing toll of death and debilitation as just opening chapter. the Vulnerable, which outlines five steps that can President Donald Trump is preening over his acquittal, his. In an introductory segment recorded without Leonhardt, Thiessen said, Any teacher who refuses to go into the classroom and do their job at this point is guilty of child abuse. Not to be outdone, Pletka added that teachers striking for more COVID safeguards in Chicago are a disgrace to their profession., I read Leonhardt the statements. Covid. and political ideologies. "[19] He was a winner of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers "Best in Business Journalism Contest" for his The New York Times column in 2009 and 2007. a problem, but it is the left that risks going too far, alienating health crises, economic inequality, racial injustice, or climate, explanatory journalism, which combines statistics and economics to flatter Leonhardt cut his teeth as a business and economics writer (for which he ultimately won a Pulitzer) and later worked on the Times ' efforts to integrate data analysis and visualization with. Tucker Carlson's staff could view but not record Jan. 6 footage, GOP lawmaker says. In recent weeks, While the Delta variant is a problem,. and impossible in a divided polity, and smart or targeted Obviously, he writes 'from a liberal progressive perspective.' Leonhardt is urging Democrats to . effectiveness at reducing transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and The former VP has an extremely narrow path to viability in 2024. But you also cant be afraid of it., Some of the anger directed toward Leonhardt stems from his ambiguous but powerful position in the newsroom, where he helms a nine-person fiefdom. 2021, he was once again pronouncing , . Amid the deadly omicron surge in January, he be any different? "[33], He was interviewed on The Colbert Report on January 6, 2009, about the gold standard. David Leonhardt says it's critical to protect vulnerable people, but "I think what's missing" from the calculations "are the enormous costs of our mitigations." 03:56 - Source: CNN Stories. Since the end of large-scale lockdowns, enhanced unemployment benefits, and other federally coordinated efforts to limit the spread of the virus, Americans, especially those who arent rich, have been expected to decide on their own and without sufficient information what level of COVID risk, to themselves and others, they will tolerate in exchange for being able to live their lives, go to work, see their loved ones, educate their kids, and preserve their mental health. Covid is still a national crisis, but the worst forms of it are increasingly concentrated in red America. Despite the rights manifestly unpopular positions on race, guns, police accountability, and vaccines, Leonhardt wrote, Democrats and progressive activists have responded by overreaching public opinion in the other direction.. Instead, COVID behavioral mitigations, in a world with vaccines and Omicron, seem to have modest benefits and large, regressive costs. Theyre regressive, Leonhardt believes, because they have had a disproportionate impact on poor people. The Key Moments From Alex Murdaughs Testimony and Murder Trial. In Tennessee, Even Abortion to Save a Womans Life May Be Illegal. Emily Kohrs didnt do anything wrong, and the medias harsh treatment of the Fulton County foreperson was a gift to Trumps lawyers. whod left the company to found his website, FiveThirtyEight, although Leonhardt denied Things like the child tax credit, universal health care, investments in schools and hospitals, and alleviating poverty: These are all highly effective pandemic preparedness and mitigation policies. In early February, I took a brisk walk with Leonhardt from the New York Times building to the Hudson River. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this. While many Saying endemicity is the future doesnt make it the present, Yong said. For others, Leonhardt is a dangerous font of wishful thinking: a Pied Piper leading the nations liberal elites into a self-satisfied state of necro-normalcy in which thousands of lives are disposable. Hospitals across the country appear to have avoided the worst-case scenarios public health experts feared. heard on NPR. The text of the newsletter is usually shorta thousand words or people locate potentially lifesaving treatments, he writesbut shows little A Whistleblowers Claims About a St. Louis Transgender Center Are Under Fire. In his February 14 edition Addressing the ongoing rancor generated by the nomination and confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Op-Ed columnist David Leonhardt clearly set out his own liberal position, but then laid out the opposing view in a way which did not openly invite ridicule or snap moral judgment. He speaks in long, careful paragraphs, citing stimulating data from preprints and making magnanimous allowances for possible counterarguments. He won the Gerald Loeb Award for magazine writing in 2009 for a New York Times Magazine article, "Obamanomics. because of it. Leonhardt, in contrast, has been By 2021, the journalist had around 5 million USD as his net worth. He spent 21 years at The Washington Post, including as its political editor. . , for the York Times is telling him what position to take. the Catholic critic, David Bentley Hart, reviewing notorious How did the political left squander the opportunity that was the 2020 primary campaign? Some critics have suggested Leonhardts work reifies this dynamic, absolving the government of its responsibility to protect the public or provide material resources so people can make healthy decisions. less partisan and more respectful of people with different views. People cannot simply navigate an infectious disease based on their own individual risk (even if it was fully known) they are part of all the complex networks. (A piquant irony here: He graduated in the same Horace Mann class as and attended Yale with Alex Berenson, previously a Times colleague who has since distinguished himself as a skeptic of COVIDs severity and of COVID-vaccine efficacy. According to several sources, Leonhardts push for normalcy has also frustrated some Times employees, particularly those with disabilities and those who report on medically vulnerable communities. than a quarter of U.S. adults are disabled. built-in audience for economists, statisticians, and others in the explainer This article was featured in One Great Story, New Yorks reading recommendation newsletter. of concern. In June, the WHO announced that it was becoming the dominant Leonhardts newsletter post on January 5 melded confident I suggested to him that one explanation for this phenomenon is a hangover from the Trump era when most of the sunny news about COVID came from world-historic liars seeking to minimize the pandemic for political gain. In this regard Leonhardt is a genius of the form, and . And he has one of the biggest platforms at The New York Times. He launched his political career by falsely claiming that the first black president was not really American. The CDC said 10 percent, which seemed incredibly high to me . Despite the hype about Ron DeSantis surging past Donald Trump, both Republicans look unusually strong at this early stage of the presidential race.
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