Editor's note: the following is an opinion piece by George Salamon “The power of facing unpleasant facts is clearly an attribute of decent, sane grown-ups as compared to the immature, the silly, the nutty, or the doctrinaire.” Paul Fussell about George Orwell’s “power to face unpleasant facts.” Orwell would have been proud of the way The New York Times exercised its own … [Read more...] about Let us now praise our paper of record: The New York Times confronts America’s unpleasant facts
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