The failure of Soviet agriculture wasn’t very salient to Americans.
Yes it was. The “success” of Soviet collectivization compared to the apparent failure of capitalism was being used as an argument to justify leftwing/collectivist economic policies.
If a topic would be the center of a culture war in the US they would notice and in today’s traffic driven times feel like it’s a good idea to write an article that ranks decently on the keyword.
The NYT isn’t going to publish an article that would offend the world view of it’s liberal readers. Any description of HBD that conceptualizes it as an empirical scientific hypothesis that could be tested and potentially confirmed would certainly fit the bill.
Yes it was. The “success” of Soviet collectivization compared to the apparent failure of capitalism was being used as an argument to justify leftwing/collectivist economic policies.
The NYT isn’t going to publish an article that would offend the world view of it’s liberal readers. Any description of HBD that conceptualizes it as an empirical scientific hypothesis that could be tested and potentially confirmed would certainly fit the bill.