The Trouble With the Free Press’s Olivia Reingold ^54.9%

Jacobin - By Nikos Mohammadi - 6/30/2026, 12:21 PM

Biased Writer Voice 58.8% - Negativity Bias 47% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 16%

On September 8, 2025, a tweet, soundtracked by Antonio Vivaldi’s “Spring,” went viral. In it, we’re shown a seemingly random collection of titles from Columbia University’s bookstore: Frantz Fanon’s <cite>Black Skin, White Masks</cite>; a kids’ book about the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Richard Rothstein’s <cite>The... more