by liberal japonicus
This NYT article wasn’t behind a paywall and I’ll leave it to all of you to glean whatever kernals of grain and post in the comment. The article had me thinking about the movie The Madness of King George, which is from an Alan Bennett play and tells the story of the Regency Crisis of 1788 where George III suffered a bout of mental illness. From the wikipedia summary
Lady Pembroke recommends Dr. Francis Willis, who cured her mother-in-law. Willis uses novel procedures. At his farm in Lincolnshire, patients work to gain “a better opinion of themselves.” He observes to an equerry “To be curbed, thwarted, stood up to, exercises the character.” When the King insults him, foully, he is strapped into a chair and gagged. He will be restrained whenever he “swears and indulges in meaningless discourse” and “does not strive every day and always towards his own recovery”.
Who do you nominate to be our Dr. Willis? In my version, she’s black.
I couldn’t figure out how to work this in the post, but this article, about a 14 year old hacker, quotes him saying this:
“It was disgusting, it was greedy, it was rooted in my own insecurities, it was wrong in every aspect,” he said in the interview, two days before reporting to prison.
Why can’t we have a president with the emotional intelligence of a 14 year old hacker?
A 14 yo going to prison? He’s 20 now. He also seems to be genuinely self-aware and fully takes responsibility.
Not only is Trump incapable of that, but I don’t think anyone in his family, his Cabinet, or any supporter in Congress is capable of it.
House Democrats File Bill to Form 25th Amendment Commission to Assess Trump’s Mental Fitness
Is the article a news article or an opinion column? It comes across as an opinion column.
It’s too long to be a news article and it includes a wider array of arguments and perspectives than would normally be found in an op-ed. I’d call this a long form journalistic essay.
The NYT has always had longer pieces that are more news analysis than reportage. I’m not precisely sure of the relationship, but I think many of them were often found in the NYT Magazine. The Guardian adopted this with their ‘long reads’, but the NYT Times, never short on humility, calls them ‘Great Reads’.