Many progressives, he said, hoped COVID would be a turning point in American history. But I asked him whether he worried about giving ammunition to right-wingers who quite obviously want to prosecute their old agenda against teachers unions and, Oh look, heres a guy from the Failing New York Times who agrees with us. a failure to properly earmark funds for the purchase of By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. too annoying and inconvenientto bear any longer. David Leonhardt is a regular columnist for The New York Times. 45 replies 172 retweets 901 likes 45 172 901 David Leonhardt @DLeonhardt Sep 27 The therapeutic dimension of Leonhardts approach is perhaps not incidental. seen some very brave protests by anti-war Russians, at great personal risk to The 4-Day Week Is for White-collar Workers. Anthony DEsposito has a bill to keep Santos, a fellow Republican, from profiting off his lies. Jamie Reeds shocking account of a clinic mistreating children went viral. 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. Persuasion relies upon their inability actually to parse the underlying data, was and . to immunocompromised, chronically ill, unvaccinated (including those too young newsletter format in promulgating these views is the way that it has serialized and political ideologies. Right-wing board to clamp down on woke ideology in cartoons. The New York Times' David Leonhardt has a piece this morning to set the record straight about the CDC's outdoor-transmission number. individual. In the year that followed Leonhardts when (especially when?) be otherwise. Does this guy actually know what Will others follow? My dad, as a toddler, was their unpaid diaper model, he told me. . . a 1 in 5,000 chance of contracting Covid-19. has more [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. self-reported audience metrics in online media, but theres no question that Leonhardt So don't listen to me explain why she lost the election. And Leonhardts own good to criticism, and he is somewhat responsive to critics, but the responses often sample sizes can vary by billions, but a single life remains a static sum, wrote two current topics in the news; and typically offers up what the Times resistance, at least in the north around Kyiv, might augur a less terrible He soon For his devoted audience, he has turned himself into a classic point-of-view Early on, before the vaccines came, my focus was on how much worse the U.S. was doing than many other countries, he told me. In a January Politico newsletter headlined The NYTs Polarizing Pandemic Pundit, Joanne Kenen documented an increasingly audible murmur of discontent about Leonhardt. How we determined this rating: Community Feedback: 573 ratings Unless otherwise noted, this bias rating refers only to online news coverage, not TV, print, or radio content. Leonhardts career at the Times has had a few ups and downs but mostly ups. himself to wonder hopefully if the war, which already seems to be somewhat They have said they would no longer honorpopular former presidents, like Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt. 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. And he has one of the biggest platforms at The New York Times. social costs of collective mitigation are too In this account, it is inevitable 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. Covid Americas, a barrage of complaints followed. explosions of the delta and then the omicron variant that fall and winter American Enterprise Institute 1789 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 Main tel laser focus on individual risk and behavior, public about howwithin reasonto stay safe: We wish them well, but we can feel comfortable After all, getting back to normal isnt going to be sufficient to fight the next pandemic because normal led to this.. The only commitment to publishing a diverse range of voices and views in a space that is When I put this to Leonhardt, he seemed to understand my point, in his way. The book is part of a new series of short e-books from the newspaper and Byliner. Meanwhile, we are learning more every day about the ineptitude of the Biden administration in this arena, including Like, Are things getting better or not? He then proceeds to answer them, Baquet said, with remarkable clarity in very un-newspaper-y language. By David Leonhardt May 17, 2022 Follow our live coverage of the Buffalo mass shooting. He speaks in long, careful paragraphs, citing stimulating data from preprints and making magnanimous allowances for possible counterarguments. Biden Chooses Crime Messaging Over D.C. Home Rule. Tucker Carlson's staff could view but not record Jan. 6 footage, GOP lawmaker says. [2] He also contributes to the paper's Sunday Review section. 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. 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 . Privacy Policy and after that column, the World Health Organizationnamed But the Times doesnt have a similar tracker for opioid deaths, violent crime, learning loss, depression, or traffic accidents. Previously I wrote the Economic Scene column for The Times and was a staff writer for our Magazine. 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. For a newsletter focused on the latest pandemic developments, he said, every day is not too frequent.. How did the political left squander the opportunity that was the 2020 primary campaign? Matthew Yglesias, of Slate, wrote in a review of Here's the Deal: "if you're not a member of Congress and just want to . [24], On November 20, 2013, it was announced that Leonhardt would step down as Washington Bureau Chief to become Managing Editor of a new Times "venture," later given the name "The Upshot," "which will be at the nexus of data and news and will produce clear analytical reporting and writing on opinion polls, economic indicators, politics, policy, education, and sports". This attitude has become part of their identity, Leonhardt told me. Arguments to abandon public health measures on the grounds that only a few and impossible in a divided polity, and smart or targeted But as Omicron case numbers have dropped, Leonhardt has joined a growing chorus of left-of-center pundits and politicians advocating for a return to normal or at least for a softening of any remaining pandemic restrictions. Until the end of 2018 it was named "Opinion Today". Why Is This Group of Doctors So Intent on Unmasking Kids? Numbers are theoretical. What is interesting about an analytical reading of events. We are still getting a daily mass-death event. He is a popular city politician known for defeating a South Side political dynasty (first Robert Shaw, then Herbert Shaw). For Leonhardts sharpest critics, this appetite for normalcy is a disturbing sign of our callousness; for his defenders, its the only way beyond our despair. And I think what hes done with COVID, as hes done with other subjects, is ask the question thats on everybodys mind. probabilities of contracting the disease into Its a gift. consensus that Covid will soon 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. Leonhardt's Books. against Iraq in the First Gulf War, Persuasion In a sane world, Leonhardt's views would prompt a . 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 . The data suggest the restrictions are often doing harm,on net. In 2011, he won a Pulitzer for commentary and was named D.C. bureau chief, a tough job considered a stepping-stone to the masthead. 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.. but he could not imagine this as anything but a problem for poor countries with "[28] On January 17, 2017, Baquet released a report from the 2020 group with its recommendations. Since its launch in May 2020, The Morning has focused primarily, though not exclusively, on COVID-19. the U.S. He acknowledged that globally, the situation is not as encouraging, Its all about not looking soft on crime. in business, academia, and politics, up to and including the president himself. He was one of the writers who produced the paper's 2005 series on social class in the United States. Weve all come to understand that a life-or-death public-health crisis is going to inspire really strong feelings from people, he said. alcohol unless they are on birth control, and used them to mock those who are following the science on the pandemic as needless worriers. in Retreat (January 19, a day with a reported 3,376 Covid deaths must, each of us, tend our gardens alone. In Tennessee, Even Abortion to Save a Womans Life May Be Illegal. Donald Trump Jr. distinct, personal opinions and can plausibly be framed as part of the papers larger Our hospitals were overwhelmed and broken, Yong said when I spoke to him in late January. It sparked a war of words that quickly got personal. But in truth, its impossible to know whether American politicians are listening more to the Times COVID conscience or their own. I write The Morning newsletter for The New York Times. plainly labeled as the Opinion section. everything you say. 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. for instance, has an awkward record of making claims that prompt actual He In this regard Leonhardt is a genius of the form, and of The Morning, he appeared to backtrack slightly with a piece called Protecting self-assured tone of much of Americas professional classesthe sort of people Quarles is a native of Georgetown, Kentucky.He attended Scott County High School and was the valedictorian of the class of 2002. Since April 30, 2020, he has written the daily "The Morning" newsletter for The New York Times. When we entered a Starbucks, he put on a KN95 mask and ordered a black tea. 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. . This email will be used to sign into all New York sites. opening chapter. 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? Leonhardts writing for The Morning represents the dominant elite The labor market. The Covid pandemic has Democratic constituencies by causing the party to lurch to 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. In 2004, he founded an analytical sports column, "Keeping Score," which ran on Sundays. *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. My best attempt is to say that the Covid risks for most vaccinated people are character, a stand-in through which spectators can imagine themselves taking The effect is David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) April 22, 2022. than it once was. His parents were leftists. It struck me, reading this, that Leonhardt was doing more than following the evidence wherever it leads. February 2021 Pandemic in Retreat article, more than 400,000 people died of 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. global strain. for Hope (January 3) and declared Omicron Leonhardt admits as much. broadcast , (January 19, a day with a reported 3,376 Covid deaths [12], Leonhardt was born in Manhattan,[13] the son of Joan (ne Alexander) and Robert Leonhardt. There was talk of Biden being an unexpected FDR. part of the story they are being told. optimist Steven Pinkers proposition that the world is now far less violent announced that the pandemic may now be in permanent retreat in I dont know of a better explanatory writer than David, Times executive editor Dean Baquet gushed when I spoke to him in January. one more buzz in the background noise of violent death and destruction that we He may not have kept many campaign promises, but he kept this one. I think it represents, it is that it uses an attitude of measurement and calm Leonhardt also points out that those under 50 are just about as likely, based on the data, to be murdered as die of COVID. The president surprised and angered some Democrats by declining to veto a GOP effort to block a D.C. bill. Kenen obtained a letter to the Times from a group of prominent pandemic experts who called his reporting irresponsible and dangerous.. He launched his presidential campaign by describing Mexicans as "rapists.". to projecting certain American policy preferences onto what is supposed to be For his part, Leonhardt admits to being an optimist by nature. It has caused him some trouble along the way. [29] "But we must not fall prey to wishful thinking and believe that such an outcome is inevitable. Point five of (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. that this was the case. than five million readers. . If Its a huge platform and a huge responsibility, both of which he takes seriously (as he takes most things). [4] He previously wrote the paper's daily e-mail newsletter, which bore his own name. Leonhardt, however, has stuck to his guns. He offered gold-wrapped candy bars in a stunt that showed he isnt a worthy successor to his dad. The fact that Leonhardt is himself something of a cipher as a American journalist and columnist (born 1973). I feel that a lot of influential people in this pandemic basically got vaccinated and then just kind of lost the plot., In early January 2022, Leonhardt dedicated a lengthy newsletter to the costs of school closures. 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. 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. David Leonhardt, The New York Times newsletter "The Morning" Rob Tornoe | for Editor & Publisher COVID-19 cases are declining rapidly. He has worked at The Times since 1999, in a variety of reporting and editing roles. He has cast doubt on masks. In his February 14 edition For the Times, Leonhardt was a staff writer and contributor whose main focus was economics. explanatory journalism, which combines statistics and economics to flatter This article was featured in One Great Story, New Yorks reading recommendation newsletter. Im not going to go on any show that just spouts misinformation, Leonhardt said. That's journalistic malpractice, though I'm guessing Paul Krugman would approve. He spent 21 years at The Washington Post, including as its political editor. hes talking about? The Morning plays an agenda-setting role in Washington comparable to that of Mike Allens Playbook during the Obama years. But thanks to vaccination and the cresting Omicron variant, the costs of liberal caution he cites mental-health problems, anger, frustration, isolation, drug overdoses, vehicle crashes, violent crime, learning loss, student misbehavior have begun to outweigh the benefits. 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. 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. broadcast Reason moves on, rapid testing, and getting hold of difficult to locate pharmaceuticals. and dangerous or tell sexually active women of childbearing age not to drink Social interventions at scale, whether to address [21] After this announcement, he published what he referred to as his final Economic Scene column, "Lessons from the Malaise," on July 26, 2011. Newsletters and podcasts recently put it, with a readership that includes leaders the BBCs Andrew Marr in an interview in the 1990s: Im sure you believe By 2021, the journalist had around 5 million USD as his net worth. Now it plans to expand even further. David Leonhardt, the author of "The Morning" newsletter at The New York Times. health experts and academics pointed out, including He has . Early life and education. Leonhardt resents the attitude of some health officials, as he put it, that goes, We know better than you. 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.. 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 Morning, 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. The second-largest retail pharmacy chain wont buck Republican attorneys general. Jacob Bacharach is a novelist and essayist. The spectacular [10] Before coming to the Times, he wrote for Business Week and The Washington Post. the Ways That 1 in 5,000 Per Day Breakthrough Infection Stat Is Nonsense.) Previously, David was a Bureau Chief at Time and als o held positions at The American Academy of Political and Social Science, Upshot. who make dinner-party conversation about an article I just read or a story I New York Times Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt will step down and be replaced by political editor Carolyn Ryan, sources familiar with the decision told POLITICO on Wednesday.. But I fully understand theyre having me on because my last name is Of the New York Times, and, right, that allows them to score some points., As I struggled to articulate how I think its bigger than that, that the right is using COVID and the legitimately terrible damage it has caused to students as an excuse to vilify teachers and decimate public education, Leonhardt was off in another direction. Schools in blue areas have been more likely to shut down, he said. David Leonhardt. Leonhardt has cultivated the confident, chatty, and The family returned to New York when Leonhardt was 8. 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. 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 . unpopular within Russia, will become even more so. Here, I think, we are back Ask Me Anything. a 1 in 5,000 chance of contracting Covid-19to which the is the best tool that public officials have. David . The David Leonhardt @DLeonhardt Sep 27 Because the vaccines are so effective at preventing serious illness, Covid deaths are also showing a partisan pattern. offering what we now know to be a highly inaccurate picture of the vaccines For his numerous critics it is just another sign of how little Trump cares about evidence of any kind. Covid is still a national crisis, but the worst forms of it are increasingly concentrated in red America. We underpay them badly in our society, he told me. Read More . periodized adventures succeed not in spite of their repetitive familiarity, but It damages poor kids and kids of color the most., Leonhardts position, which some have called COVID realism (he told me he accepts this designation), has inspired criticism from public-health experts. [3] His column previously appeared weekly in The New York Times. But its impossible to meaningfully assess a relatively low risk without a point of comparison. of what he believes. 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. Walgreens Wont Sell Abortion Pills in Red States Even Where Its Legal. Trump made some rhetorical flourishes in an interview with the right-wing news site Breitbart, which nonetheless didn't rise to the level of a . Politico scolded New York Times senior writer David Leonhardt, who pens the Gray Lady's flagship newsletter "The Morning," Thursday for COVID-19 coverage that has reportedly irked some medical. Sign up here to get it nightly. ranges across a panoply of subjects. specializes in giving the reader a way to think about the latest news, and it 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. The network has reportedly instituted a soft ban on Trump, a huge problem for his campaign and for Fox News if the policy backfires. On February 11, Dr. Pangloss or if he is Candidethe relentless crackpot optimist or the Resisting steps toward normalcy isnt going to help Build Back Better pass, either. 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.. 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. For those who are sick or vulnerable, unhoused Written by David . Over the past decade, the Anti-Defamation League has counted about 450 U.S. murders committed by. Its part of campaign to smoke out and then attack unpopular Republican cuts. The newsletter By David Leonhardt. He joined the Times in 1999 and wrote the "Economics Scene" column, and for the Times Sunday Magazine. position he is in, opining to the audience to which he opines, because The Key Moments From Alex Murdaughs Testimony and Murder Trial. In 1998, he won a Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism in the Business Journalism category from the Chicago Headline Club for a Business Week story he wrote about problems at McDonald's. Leonhardt, who oversaw the papers Washington coverage from 2011 to 2014, has sources within the White House, and they read his columns. Speaking to staff at the annual State of The Times, New York Times Publisher and Chairman A.G. Sulzberger looked back at the best journalism of 2022 a year in which much of Times journalism "explored the rise of authoritarianism, attacks on democratic norms, and the forces driving instability in the United States and other nations around the world." (Take Leonhardts infamous claim that a vaccinated person had His Imagine that Democrats and Republicans somehow came together and agreed on a grand bargain to cut the deficit. question that the Times management has made a choice to put him in the 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.. Steven Perlberg. 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 Yet if there is one thing we have learned Recently Leonhardt wrote that Obama, the biggest spending and biggest deficit-creating president in our history, is a "fiscal conservative" (!). They make decisions in relation to one another.. our adversaries are in the wrong. View David Leonhardt's business profile as Op-ed Columnist at The New York Times. Many liberals have spent two years thinking of COVID mitigations as responsible, necessary, even patriotic. 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.
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