Discussing Liberally Salt Lake City

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Traditionally, each month’s “Reference Materials” section includes, inter alia, book reviews from –

The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post

Although all three reviewed “The Assault on American Excellence,” there are several anomalies –

(1) The New York Times article reviewed two books – the other “Safe Enough Spaces” by Michael S. Roth, President of Wesleyan University.

(2) The Washington Post review is by Michael S. Roth – which would seem an obvious conflict of interest because, as just noted in Item (1), Roth had a competing book which had just been published.

(3) The New York Times, in addition to its book review by the former Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, published an OpEd by Brett Stephens – an OpEd writer for the NY Times since 2017, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2013 for commentary while at the Wall Street Journal, and a former Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Post.

All three reviews plus the OpEd are posted in this section.