How you know the New York Times is in trouble
When things aren’t going well for them, the New York Times trots out that reliable old villain, Richard Nixon. And who better to do it than legal analyst and reformed masturbator Jeffrey Toobin. See “We’re in a Worst Place Then We Were Under Nixon” in Sunday’s NYT Opinion section 12 October 2025. He’s a moral beacon for us all.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-toobin-masturbation-disaster_n_64534da4e4b04616030ff32f
Addendum 12 October: From a good friend I choose to keep anonymous:
“We do seem to be in a worse place than Nixon since the vast majority of people disapproved of what he did. I don’t care much about Toobin one way or another, although his book on the Supreme Court is worth reading.”
If Toobin (or Hitler) says 2 + 2 = 4, I’ll buy it, but I won’t buy moral judgements from either. Nonetheless your distinction between Watergate times in the early 70s and the present is quite valid (having lived through both)