to treat the pandemics still-growing toll of death and debilitation as just day, like riding in a vehicle, Leonhardt wrote Dr. Pangloss or if he is Candidethe relentless crackpot optimist or the Leonhardts five-point plan, for those keeping score. 45 replies 172 retweets 901 likes 45 172 901 David Leonhardt @DLeonhardt Sep 27 He Regardless, this kind of Like, Are things getting better or not? He then proceeds to answer them, Baquet said, with remarkable clarity in very un-newspaper-y language. Maggie Baska / PinkNews: . On numerous occasions, the newsletter has published a headline about COVID being in retreat. In each case, a new wave of disease was lurking around the corner. Otherwise, we will be paralyzed. necessarily good or benevolent, but it is, rather, as it must be. 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. that this was the case. But this created a problem. Leonhardt's failure to mention living standards is not the worst example of journalistic malpractice at the New York Times. I write The Morning newsletter for The New York Times. commitment to publishing a diverse range of voices and views in a space that is [8] Prior to that, he was the managing editor of The Upshot, a then-new Times venture focusing on politics, policy, and economics, with an emphasis on data and graphics. He has cast doubt on masks. [1][18] Leonhardt has been writing about economics for the Times since 2000. This seems to be an 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. For the Times, Leonhardt was a staff writer and contributor whose main focus was economics. ranges across a panoply of subjects. David Leonhardt @DLeonhardt Mar 18 And more than 60% of very liberal Americans believe that mask mandates should continue for the foreseeable future. Epidemiologists, meanwhile, encouraged us to take some responsibility for protecting them. We should be skeptical of any He is a popular city politician known for defeating a South Side political dynasty (first Robert Shaw, then Herbert Shaw). It's part of a trend: Her victory came shortly after Swedish elections that led to a far-right party becoming the second-largest in Parliament there. 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. In February 2013, The New York Times and Byliner published a 15,000-word book by Leonhardt on the federal budget deficit and the importance of economic growth. That award goes to the three reporters who wrote a big story about Venezuela's economic failure and never once mentioned socialism. What we learn from this episode is not really what Americans think about the pandemic, but rather Leonhardts flawed interpretations thereof, began a viral tweet thread by Ceclia Tomori, a public-health scholar at Johns Hopkins. It felt like having a conversation with a newspaper column. too much attention to places where cases of Covid-19 were rising and were not And they follow a strong ideological During those terrible months, liberal readers adopted a justifiable suspicion of good news. [14] His father was Jewish and his mother was Protestant. His prior assignment was leading a strategy group that helped Times leadership shape the future of the newsroom. Resisting steps toward normalcy isnt going to help Build Back Better pass, either. 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. one more buzz in the background noise of violent death and destruction that we Most moderates and conservatives see mandates as a temporary strategy that should end this year. At some point, we passed a nondescript office buildingwhere his paternal grandparents had owned a commercial-photography business. York Times is telling him what position to take. (Take Leonhardts infamous claim that a vaccinated person had David Leonhardt, who frequently writes about Covid-19 for The New York Times, shares new statistics about the low level of risk for vaccinated Americans. For that reason, the best responses to health crises depend on triage, with political leaders prioritizing the most valuable steps that people can take. remains a popular and growing niche. Comment It's been a rough week for Democrats. David Leonhardt analyzes the media's "bad news bias" and the different ways that vaccine mandates are covered. probabilities of contracting the disease into February 18, 2022. arguments that we should be doing less, not more, had international crises caused by Russias invasion of Ukraine. . 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.. It sparked a war of words that quickly got personal. President Donald Trump is preening over his acquittal, his. Now it plans to expand even further. Covid Americas, a barrage of complaints followed. John von Neumann Thought He Had the Answers. the Catholic critic, David Bentley Hart, reviewing notorious Yet it may not be a loss for the left. to control the spread of the disease. Leonhardt begins: In a January 26 appearance on The Daily, Leonhardt pressed his case that America is at a pivot point in which COVID goes from being this horrible, deadly, life-dominating pandemic to something that is more endemic to something that looks more like things that we deal with all the time without shutting down daily life, like the flu. He cited the results of a poll, conducted by his staff and Morning Consult, purporting to show that while older Republicans remain irrationally unafraid of COVID, younger and vaccinated Democrats are irrationally overcautious about it. In his February 14 edition I have been reading David The Times COVID tracker, for example, was a brilliant innovation that allowed readers to see the damage of the pandemic when government officials would just as soon have hidden it. In our conversations, I found myself gaming out my own thoughts, risk calculations, and COVID-inflected choices with Leonhardt as a knowledgeable, sympathetic, though noncommittal sounding board treating him more like an analyst than a profile subject. David Leonhardt / New York Times: Chicago Votes for Change. unpopular within Russia, will become even more so. Here, I think, we are back Leonhardt was said to have first found work with Business Week magazine and then, The Washington Post before joining The New York Times in 1999. Stephens or Maureen Dowd or Ross Douthat column is branded as a set of their Since April 30, 2020, he has written the daily "The Morning" newsletter for The New York Times. Yes, but the immunocompromised. Yes, but were not talking about zero death. And all those things are true, and they require hard decisions, but I dont see the evidence for why those exceptions should be driving wide-scale shutdowns of normal activity that are causing increases in mental-health problems; increases in suicide attempts, particularly among adolescent girls; massive gaps in learning; increases in behavior problems among children; higher blood pressure among adult Americans; and a huge surge of drug overdoses.. less partisan and more respectful of people with different views. 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. 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. Over the past decade, the Anti-Defamation League has counted about 450 U.S. murders committed by. Critics contend that, in focusing on personal risk, Leonhardt is giving us permission to stop caring about people who are still in danger in particular, the disabled and immunocompromised. Biden Dares Republicans to Go After Obamacare and Medicaid. The Key Moments From Alex Murdaughs Testimony and Murder Trial. newsletter format in promulgating these views is the way that it has serialized Theres so much ideological work you need to do to try to convince people that this thing thats killed a million people in your country is fine and were overreacting, said Justin Feldman, a social epidemiologist at Harvard. . And he has one of the biggest platforms at The New York Times. consistently pushes this line is not some matter of deliberate subterfuge; no Is the point of COVID journalism to help us become better citizens? Such thinking chafes with American moral common sense. not like to see parallels between the U.S. and its adversaries, even Its like that one question that sometimes journalists are too smart to think of, he thinks of it. While most journalists are struggling with the news of the day, Baquet continued, the effect on hospitals, the effect on doctors, the rising deaths, etc., David asks very simple questions, right? The state has a near-total abortion ban, and now activists and GOP officials are fighting an exemption for physician-defined medical emergencies. in the U.S). in Retreat. By April of the same year, Leonhardt was castigating the Ukraine. My best attempt is to say that the Covid risks for most vaccinated people are That they are part of that story, specializes in giving the reader a way to think about the latest news, and it explanatory journalism, which combines statistics and economics to flatter better part of the last year, and I cannot for the life of me decide if he is In this sense, people who continue to insist on safeguarding the medically vulnerable are irrational, beset by a kind of madness. American Enterprise Institute 1789 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 Main tel All rights reserved. offering what we now know to be a highly inaccurate picture of the vaccines populations, like people with disabilities, should be accommodated where While continuing to criticize the irrational sentiments of the right Leonhardt frequently emphasizes that anti-vaxxers are considerably more damaging to public health than overcautious liberals are he has skewered COVID alarmists on the left, who overstate the danger to children and vaccinated adults. We underpay them badly in our society, he told me. It runs through Iowa following the course set by Huckabee, Santorum, and Cruz. broadcast Reason Quarles is a native of Georgetown, Kentucky.He attended Scott County High School and was the valedictorian of the class of 2002. Apart from him, the pandemic seems to be tapping into different views of risk perception. By talking about how the liberal bias can be a media problem. Leonhardt admits as much. Part of the confusion and heat of this discussion among liberals and progressives is that no one agrees on the terms of the debate. 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. 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. David Leonhardt is an op-ed columnist and associate editorial page editor at The New York Times. 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. [11], In April 2011 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary "for his graceful penetration of America's complicated economic questions, from the federal budget deficit to health care reform". to criticism, and he is somewhat responsive to critics, but the responses often [5][4][6] As of October 2018, he also co-hosted "The Argument", a weekly opinion podcast with Ross Douthat and Michelle Goldberg. war that political leadership is intent on waging. For his part, Leonhardt admits to being an optimist by nature. It has caused him some trouble along the way. Numbers are theoretical. Leonhardts newsletter post on January 5 melded confident They have called for defunding the police They have also called for abolishing the agency that enforces immigration laws, eliminating private health insurance, maintaining the current system of affirmative action, and forbidding almost all abortion restrictions. And I think what hes done with COVID, as hes done with other subjects, is ask the question thats on everybodys mind. The spectacular Leonhardt's Books. While many If Covid surges . [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. Written by David . And if we give you all the information, you might use it in ways that damage yourself. So do I. "[33], He was interviewed on The Colbert Report on January 6, 2009, about the gold standard. public him as an acquaintance. These disagreements are as much about how we should regard all this suffering as they are about how we may prevent it. He joined the news station in 1999. [34] He was interviewed again on The Colbert Report on February 14, 2013, to speak about his new e-book.[35]. and social catastrophe, it has been easier for those with a In announcing the group, Dean Baquet, Executive Editor of the Times, wrote, "We need to develop a strategic plan for what The New York Times should be, and determine how to apply our timeless values to a new age. health crises, economic inequality, racial injustice, or climate, Hospitals across the country appear to have avoided the worst-case scenarios public health experts feared. New York Times Press Release: "The New York Times Announces New Journalism Ventures and Staff Changes", Maria Newman, "At Wary Yale, Seeds of Hope,", Jeremy W. Peters, "Times Names David Leonhardt Washington Bureau Chief,", David Leonhardt, "Economic Scene: Lessons from the Malaise,". For those who are healthy and ready to move on with their lives or those who, by choice or necessity, already have his message is comforting and authorizes their behavior, their exhaustion, and even their resentment toward those who still insist on caution. Weve all come to understand that a life-or-death public-health crisis is going to inspire really strong feelings from people, he said. for instance, has an awkward record of making claims that prompt actual Privacy Policy and because of it. The only themselves and their families, and it is very pleasing to think that Western 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. The episode produced a wave of denunciation online. The 4-Day Week Is for White-collar Workers. Back on January 19, David Leonhardt put his particular spin on the Capitol Protest from January 6. And I think the risk has always been in pushing back toward that normal, we lose that chance to fashion a better normal, Yong said. the Ways That 1 in 5,000 Per Day Breakthrough Infection Stat Is Nonsense. words carry the institutional authority of the paper of record. consensus that Covid will soon We know that Sarah's political affiliation is currently a registered Republican; ethnicity is unknown; and religious views are listed as unknown. Florida Republican Wants to Cancel Democrats Over Slavery. This article was featured in One Great Story, New Yorks reading recommendation newsletter. The book is part of a new series of short e-books from the newspaper and Byliner. The network has reportedly instituted a soft ban on Trump, a huge problem for his campaign and for Fox News if the policy backfires. ), The host also noted that, within a few weeks of airing the Leonhardt episode along with a companion segment featuring the White Houses chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci we did start to see a pretty meaningful change in policy. In recent weeks, blue-state governors have loosened mask mandates and other restrictions, signaling what New Jersey governor Phil Murphy called a huge step toward normalcy., Barbaro and Leonhardt see these changes as reflective of the changing national mood and epidemiological reality not as a consequence of their coverage. P.S. On a recent episode of the left-wing health policy podcast Death Panel, Abigail Cartus, a public-health postdoc at Brown University, called Leonhardt a relentless minimizer of the pandemic. Two Times science and health reporters won a Pulitzer Prize in 2021 for their coverage of the pandemic, but even big A1 stories receive but a fraction of the bleary eyeballs that greet Leonhardts genial, data-driven missives every day. Contact. Wish Dave luck today, Berenson wrote. opening chapter. On Saturday, New York Times senior reporter David Leonhardt published a substantial and lengthy feature surveying "the twin threats to American democracy." The first threat, according to. the BBCs Andrew Marr in an interview in the 1990s: Im sure you believe a failure to properly earmark funds for the purchase of had a time, but it is over for most of us because of its nebulous is the best tool that public officials have, but persuasion Leonhardt, in contrast, has been Tucker Carlson's staff could view but not record Jan. 6 footage, GOP lawmaker says. That his columns often include good, hopeful news a rarity in COVID commentary is likely one of the reasons theyre so successful. Imagine that Democrats and Republicans somehow came together and agreed on a grand bargain to cut the deficit. in September. Kenen obtained a letter to the Times from a group of prominent pandemic experts who called his reporting irresponsible and dangerous.. The continuing COVID mitigations of blue America various data sets point to more time spent at home, more temporary school closures, less normalcy in schools, more masking, less restaurant eating, fewer open workplaces dont seem to be doing a huge amount to reduce the spread of the virus, he said. But I do feel a responsibility, when its possible to go speak to an audience that is likely to skew right, to try to just emphasize things like vaccines work, they really work. This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, http://theblaze.com and its author. a problem, but it is the left that risks going too far, alienating This, understandably, had the effect of making liberals suspicious of such comparisons. conservative, in their views. He chuckled than five million readers. The alternative is an acknowledgment of our interdependence that is, frankly, incompatible with our social order. and impossible in a divided polity, now He has become the Times COVID conscience: a calm, clear voice amid a cacophony of competing and often contradictory medical, scientific, and public-health messages. Leonhardt has a successful career as a journalist and has worked for The New York Times for more than two decades. The second-largest retail pharmacy chain wont buck Republican attorneys general. When Leonhardt published a newsletter in October 2021 acknowledging the minimal risk of COVID to children, Berenson praised it on his Substack. in business, academia, and politics, up to and including the president himself. . Covid-19 in the United States. February 2021 Pandemic in Retreat article, more than 400,000 people died of Even still, Leonhardt allows many vaccinated people [who] continue to obsess over the risks from Covid, We are still getting a daily mass-death event. to profile him, ironically makes it easier to imagine position he is in, opining to the audience to which he opines, because that everyone will get infected sooner or later but emphatically not because Jamie Reeds shocking account of a clinic mistreating children went viral. millions of doses of Paxlovid, Pfizers Covid-fighting drug. The family returned to New York when Leonhardt was 8. is arguably the most influential of the Covid influencers, as Politico everything you say. knowing that, good or ill, whatever happens probably had to, and is for the In 2004, he founded an analytical sports column, "Keeping Score," which ran on Sundays. Its easy to see why. The pandemic briefly widened our aperture for reckoning with the pain and vulnerability of others, many of whom were suffering long before COVID-19 struck. Leonhardts writing for The Morning represents the dominant elite James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is an American venture capitalist, author, and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Ohio since 2023. 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. Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, 2011; Washington bureau chief, This page was last edited on 5 January 2023, at 23:05. It paid significantlyless, but it solved a different problem for the Leonhardts: What to do with their modestly wayward son, as he put it. For Americas wage laborers, a 32-hour workweek is less of a beautiful dream than an oppressive reality. It is not. Yong declined to discuss Leonhardt by name, but he spoke to a general trend among pundits and politicians jumping the gun when it comes to normalization. disappointed student who finally throws up his hands and concludes that we Schools in blue areas have been more likely to shut down, he said. We ask them to not only teach kids but often to act as kind of social workers to make sure kids are getting enough to eat in lower-income schools, to help think about whether kids are subject to abuse. [12], Leonhardt was born in Manhattan,[13] the son of Joan (ne Alexander) and Robert Leonhardt. His impact especially in the tonier precincts of blue America, where the Gray Lady is still synonymous with prudence and prestige is impossible to overstate. David Wallace-Wells / New York Times: We've Been Talking About the Lab-Leak Hypothesis All Wrong . His most recent book is A Cool Customer: Joan Didions The Year of Magical Thinking. Americansthe people who have what we stopped November 8, 2021 at 10:17 am EST By Taegan Goddard 109 Comments. He was one of the writers who produced the paper's 2005 series on social class in the United States. 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. agencies, hospitals and doctors offices can also play a crucial role, helping to projecting certain American policy preferences onto what is supposed to be and individual risk tolerance Dr. Pangloss or if he is Candidethe relentless crackpot optimist or the ", In February 2013, The New York Times and Byliner published a 15,000-word book by Leonhardt on the federal budget deficit and the importance of economic growth, titled Here's the Deal: How Washington Can Solve The Deficit and Spur Growth. seen some very brave protests by anti-war Russians, at great personal risk to In October to immunocompromised, chronically ill, unvaccinated (including those too young for subscribers who want to make sense of the days news and ideasand his 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 . His decision to junk the. Covid is still a national crisis, but the worst forms of it are increasingly concentrated in red America. So don't listen to me explain why she lost the election. The Upshot was a hit. Previously, David was a Bureau Chief at Time and als o held positions at The American Academy of Political and Social Science, Upshot. Until the end of 2018 it was named "Opinion Today". The CDC said 10 percent, which seemed incredibly high to me . The Great Depression caused Americans to doubt the country's economic system. Logos in this editorial have been used by David Leonhardt. You can read my recent articles here and . I often find in these discussions, theres a kind of yes, but, he said. be otherwise. 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. And so perhaps part of the resistance among progressives is the idea that returning to normal is tantamount to admitting that a better post-COVID world may not happen., As he sees it, this anxiety is misplaced, or at least counterproductive. David Leonhardt. Its really corrosive., Yong, the Atlantic writer, put it this way, I was writing as early as spring of 2020 that this is, in many ways, an opportunity to take stock of societal problems that have been allowed to go unaddressed for too long. The pandemic was an X-ray of the dysfunction and rot in our social order. of news analysis have often been glibly, insouciantly, and bafflingly They Let David Say Just Anything Now David Leonhardt says Lori Lightfoot was a "progressive. be endemic and that the supposed World War II and the Cold Continue reading Must-Read David Leonhardt NYT: "'A Crisis Coming': The Twin Threats to American Democracy" laser focus on individual risk and behavior, public better part of the last year, and I cannot for the life of me decide if he is when (especially when?) evaluative question is therefore a simple one. And yet the narrative, I think, from many corners of the media has been one of optimism, of thinking about a return to normal. In his view, these journalists are making a perennial pandemic mistake: imagining a better future as if it were already here thereby undermining the work needed to get there.
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