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My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.

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Also: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Masih Alinejad, Zaina Arafat, Elna Baker, Rachael Denhollander, Matti Friedman, Nick Gillespie, Heather Heying, Randall Kennedy, Julius Krein, Monica Lewinsky, Glenn Loury, Jesse Singal, Ali Soufan, Chloe Valdary, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Wesley Yang, and many others.īut the lessons that ought to have followed the election-lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society-have not been learned. Among those I helped bring to our pages: the Venezuelan dissident Wuilly Arteaga the Iranian chess champion Dorsa Derakhshani and the Hong Kong Christian democrat Derek Lam. I am proud of my work as a writer and as an editor. I was honored to be part of that effort, led by James Bennet. The priority in Opinion was to help redress that critical shortcoming. Dean Baquet and others have admitted as much on various occasions. The reason for this effort was clear: The paper’s failure to anticipate the outcome of the 2016 election meant that it didn’t have a firm grasp of the country it covers. I was hired with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages: first-time writers, centrists, conservatives and others who would not naturally think of The Times as their home. I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times.