Chris Lehmann on the glass floor beneath the New York Times

Chris Lehmann’s seat on the Chinatown bus to DC is barely cold and already he’s lobbing a salvo back at his former homestead, taking aim at the New York Times’ recent series on class in America. Lehmann says that the NYT is incabable of exploring the complexities of the issue from their lofty position on high: “Social class is at the core of the Times’ institutional identity, which prevents the paper from offering the sort of dispassionate, critically searching discussion the subject demands.”