‘We’?

Fresh from Sunday’s assertion that “we” find it incomprehensible that anyone would be motivated by theology and that “We have chosen to keep our politics unilluminated by divine revelation,” (Please see our editorial of Monday, “‘We’?“) the New York Times was at it again on Tuesday with the first person plural. The place was a column by the newspaper’s former editorial page editor, Gail Collins, in which she considered the differences between the rich of today and of the 1980s. “True, our current crop of rich people is much more discreet,” Ms. Collins wrote. “But if they avoid flaunting their money it is probably because they know that if we got a whiff of how much some of them are making for how little work, we would all march on the palace waving burning torches.”