On Friday, The New York Times, in its inestimable arrogance, published a response by its editor-in-chief rejecting the claims of five noted historians that the Times’ 1619 project, which is intended to be used to inform the education of schoolchildren across the country and is an attempt to paint the founding of the United States as built on slavery rather than freedom, contained factual errors.
The historians started by writing:
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