Here is Valerie Stivers’ verdict against @TheAtlantic in @unherd: https://t.co/m70tJL9Kxj

“Bottom line: the core of Barrett’s story on niche sports was beyond reproach — and in fact her findings were validated in 2023 by a group of economists at Harvard. And her 1995 reporting was a textbook example of a lost form of hard-hitting investigative reporting. It’s The Atlantic’s failure that it published a true story only to retract it.

It’s disappointing to see The Atlantic violate its own standards and the standards of journalism to distance itself from Barrett. The original editor’s note appears to have been written not to present a fair portrait, or even the correct facts about Barrett’s history, but in order to align with the publication’s politically motivated and cancel-culture-safe inner truth. The current version of the note does the same thing in even more disjointed fashion. “

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 27, 2026

from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey

September 27, 2026 at 12:19AM
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