When Jewish leaders say “I was wrong”
I love that old song by Player: “Baby Come Back” — especially when the singer says: “I was wrong…”
It is not that easy to say. But, we do. Because we must.
In late July, the Sunday New York Times devoted an entire section to that topic – “I Was Wrong.” The editors of the New York Times invited a cadre of their op-ed writers – among them, as pictured above, Farhad Manjoo, Paul Krugman, Bret Stephens, and Gail Collins – to describe how they had been wrong about what they had once thought, and about what they had once written.
It was dazzling — an evocation of one of the themes of the High Holy…
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