Iconoclast: The Times Is Now Illiberal The New York Times’ own Diversity and Inclusion Reports “divide all employees into two crude categories — ‘people of color’ (good) and ‘whites and unspecified’ (meh). And the goal was an explicit jump in the proportion of the good non-whites versus the white meh,” marvels the Weekly Dish’s Andrew Sullivan , as a 2021 management Call To Action boasts of the surge in non-white hirings and promotions. The Times elsewhere insists it doesn’t discriminate —