Majicman Notes

When you acknowledge how little you know, looking in at a world from the outside brings a special clarity.

I began to discover the rewards granted any serious reporter: that when you acknowledge how little you know, looking in at a world from the outside brings a special clarity.

“In truly effective thinking”, Walter Lippmann wrote 100 years ago in “Public Opinion”, “the prime necessity is to liquidate judgments, regain an innocent eye, disentangle feelings, be curious and open-hearted.”

James Bennet is The Economist’s Lexington columnist

When the New York Times lost its way
https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-times-lost-its-way
from The Economist