The Fall of Tucker Carlson

David Talbot on why the Fox News host lost his job.

David Talbot is someone I listen to. As the founding editor of Salon. com, he was a pioneer of independent online journalism. As the author of two fine books about the Kennedy era, he is a scholar of the Cold War. Who better to put the firing of Tucker Carlson into context?

After Fox settled the lawsuit of Dominion Voting Systems, the New York Times has …