Sublime

Magazine articles are between-meal snacks. They are Ideas Lite. They

we have to search for a more objectively true account.

But despite the epic nature of the story and the prominent identity of its author, the New York Times decided to downplay—one more time—the story of the Holocaust and placed the story on page twelve.

whether it was a Nazi collaborator serving as the paper’s Berlin bureau chief at the most sensitive moment in modern history, a communist propagandist helping to midwife American recognition of the Soviet Union, the creation of a jihadist boy-martyr almost out of thin air, the cover-up of radiation sickness resulting from the use of nuclear weapons

Jews who suffered and the six million who perished in Europe had something in common with the people who ran the newspaper—and this was something that the New York Times’s controlling owners somehow found unacceptable.

different groups, each in its own way, wish to bring salvation now by choosing either particularism or universalism to the exclusion of the other.