In search of lost Time

Radley Balko and Jeff Winkler stroll down Memory Lane at Time magazine, where moral panic isn’t a sociological concept — it’s an exciting brand of contemporary journalism.

I was at the “obesity summit” Balko references in re the last cover, as pretty much the lone dissenting voice in an ocean of hysteria, and after I did my thing Time’s science editor said from the podium for the benefit of the audience “Paul, we may disagree with what you say, but we will defend to the death your right to say it.” (By “defend to the death” I think he meant “will invite you to conferences like this sometimes”).