On November 3, 2022 — right before the midterms — the New York Times Editorial Board produced a long article titled “America Can Have Democracy or Political Violence. Not Both.”
But they don’t really believe that.
Sunday’s New York Times Magazine ran a bizarre, almost Freudian interview from the environmental violence fringe, “How This Climate Activist Justifies Political Violence.” Talk page columnist David Marchese tied to Swedish professor Andreas Malm’s follow-up, “Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown,” It was a strange, cringeworthy interview where both sides revealed rather too much of their own personal demons.
Marchese conveniently cited favorable mainstream press coverage, including in the Times itself, to justify boosting Malm’s latest violent manifesto. The eco-terrorist himself wrote an op-ed in…
