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It isn’t a secret that media — especially its mainstream installment — is an institution that resists change, and when confronting a flavor of it so rare, its instinct is to often retaliate. That’s the story of Elizabeth Bruenig, who ran her trials of preaching the gospel of socialism from a catholic perspective on the New Republic, the Washington Post and then most-recently the New York Times–if her opinions are heeded by those who respect the profession regardless of the unspoken compulsion to instead be liberal and faithless, some still see the 2018 Pulitzer Prize runner-up as undeserving of her platform due to her unwillingness to conform.
Putting it in such harsh a term might surprise some people, but it’s true–because American media’s most influential are concentrated along coastal metropoles, they inadvertently push for a particular brand of secular politics and sometimes even girlboss feminism that punishes Elizabeth for being a working Catholic mom who thinks that the liberal fortresses set up around her workplace have little moral meat. Her having kids seems unconscionable for anyone in this profession, religiosity is considered contrary to the prestige that…
