Another Problem with Time Magazine

For their feature on Lincoln, a Time reporter interviewed Lincoln skeptics including Clyde Wilson, Don Livingston, Tom DiLorenzo, and me. All of us were photographed, the whole bit. And then? The piece is cut. No skepticism, no matter how founded in fact, can be permitted to challenge the president-as-demigod routine. Inspired by Tom’s comments, I wrote to the reporter in question, a young guy named Jeff Chu, to say: “After all that, they cut your piece? Is that not all the evidence you need of what we were saying? In place of a rational and sober assessment of a mortal … Continue reading Another Problem with Time Magazine