If you are a normal, functional, halfway rational American who also follows the news, you’ve likely come to a realization that’s no less jarring for being repeated: Many of the people crafting content for our nation’s most prestigious media outlets travel in ideological bubbles so impenetrable that they could survive multiple drone strikes followed by days of relentless aerial attacks by those 50-foot pterosaurs in the latest Jurassic World.
I’m sorry if that sounds insensitive: It’s true! Exhibit 2,567,006 — and that’s counting just the incidents this year — is from June 5, when a much-discussed New York Times column opened as follows: “Over the past few years, I’ve been asked one question more than any other. It comes up at speeches, at dinners, in conversation. . . . It comes in two forms. The first: Should I have kids, given the climate crisis they will face? The second: Should I have kids, knowing they will contribute to the climate crisis the world faces?”
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