I totally agree. But to be fair, the problem is also the Times. If Ziblatt & Co. tried to slip in a word about the Constitution, I have no doubt that the Ochs-Sulzbergers would have stopped down in their tracks. Deep down, I think it's a case of German Jews trying to be more respectable than the loftiest Boston Brahmin. So they're afraid to say anything negative about the Constitution at all. The same piety that leads the Times to over-cover the papacy in such absurdly solemn tones leads them to under-cover the constitutional crisis.
I totally agree. But to be fair, the problem is also the Times. If Ziblatt & Co. tried to slip in a word about the Constitution, I have no doubt that the Ochs-Sulzbergers would have stopped down in their tracks. Deep down, I think it's a case of German Jews trying to be more respectable than the loftiest Boston Brahmin. So they're afraid to say anything negative about the Constitution at all. The same piety that leads the Times to over-cover the papacy in such absurdly solemn tones leads them to under-cover the constitutional crisis.