Times Columnists Revisit Incorrect Predictions and Bad Advice — and Reflect on Why They Changed Their Minds
Eight NYT’s opinion columnists reflect on their mistakes. “In our age of hyperpartisanship and polarization, when social media echo chambers incentivize digging in and doubling down, it’s not easy to admit you got something wrong….It’s not necessarily easy for Times Opinion columnists to engage in public self-reproach, but we hope that in doing so, they can be models of how valuable it can be to admit when you get things wrong.” Eight NYT’s opinion columnists reflect on their mistakes.