«It’s the rattle of a person going on and professorially on, quite as if the substance of a discipline, or its intellectual trajectory, or even just the nourishing joy of sustained and serious study, mattered at all to the person he was talking to, or to the majestic institution he represents. And honestly, what could be more feeble?

It’s not that those things don’t matter: they absolutely goddamn do, and will keep on mattering, and I wouldn’t go on with the whole tedious business of teaching if I thought otherwise. It’s just that they never mattered much to the Times and they are, to appearances, mattering less and less by the day. I should remember that, and so should you.»

https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/

(Before someone says, “ooh, John, you read Literary Hub?”: no, I don’t, but Memeorandum does, apparently.)