After nearly four years of relative silence, former New York Times op-ed editor Adam Rubenstein sounded off Monday morning in a lengthy essay at The Atlantic about the embarrassing, pathetic, and disturbing episode from June 2020 in which Rubenstein was pushed out over the paper’s publication of Senator Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) infamous op-ed calling for using the military to quell the costly and deadly Black Lives Matter riots.
Rubenstein wasn’t the only casualty as his boss and editorial page editor James Bennet was forced to resign by a far-left mob of their own colleagues showing a petulant but standard inability to accept diverse viewpoints.
Rubenstein caught the reader’s attention from the get-go in his piece “I Was a Heretic at The New York Times; I did what I was hired to do, and I paid for it” with this open (click “expand”):
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