Five years ago, in the epistemic fog of early Covid, Trump 1.0, George Floyd, and the attendant cultural inflection point, the New York Times Opinion columnist Bari Weiss defiantly announced that she was resigning from the paper in protest of its illiberal ideological intolerance. In a public letter, she accused publisher A.G. Sulzberger of abandoning the paper’s commitment to a free exchange of ideas and caving to a progressive mob, including Times staff who bullied her for her heterodox—pro-Israel, anti-D.E.I.—viewpoints. “Nowadays, standing up for principle at the paper does not win plaudits,” she wrote. “It puts a target on your back.”