Jon Lee Anderson is the Megan McArdle of The New Yorker: tendentious, not nearly as smart as he thinks, reluctant to examine his biases or admit his errors.
Update: here’s the backstory, which is important.
Update II: as Nick notes in the comments, there’s more.
* From here.
Thanks for this–I wouldn’t have known about how crap that article was otherwise. Yay the internets.
Corey Robin and Keane Bhatt deserve your thanks. They did the heavy lifting. And just to be extra specially clear, I hold no particular brief for Chavez. I just think that he did enough lousy things — along with some remarkably wonderful things — that one can rely on the facts, rather than tortured data, to damn him, if one wishes to do so.
And there’s this if you like charts, graphs, and a few facts to make John Lee Anderson and the New Yorker look a bit more ridiculous.
https://nacla.org/blog/2013/4/24/new-yorker-should-ignore-jon-lee-anderson-and-issue-correction-venezuela
I saw that, Nick, and meant to update the post. I’m going to do it now.