{"id":16901,"date":"2025-04-02T22:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/richard-bernstein-times-correspondent-critic-and-author-dies-at-80\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:13:27","slug":"richard-bernstein-times-correspondent-critic-and-author-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/richard-bernstein-times-correspondent-critic-and-author-dies-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Bernstein, Times Correspondent, Critic and Author, Dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Richard Bernstein, a former correspondent and critic for The New York Times whose deep knowledge of Asia and Europe illuminated reporting from Tiananmen Square to the Bastille, and who wrote things as he saw them in 10 books driven by unflinching intellectual curiosity, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 80.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His death, in a hospital, was caused by pancreatic cancer, diagnosed less than eight weeks ago, his son, Elias Bernstein, said. Mr. Bernstein lived in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over more than two decades at The Times, Mr. Bernstein brought deep historical knowledge, a gracious writing style and a stubborn contrarian streak to subjects as various as the meaning of the French Revolution, the nature of Chinese authoritarianism, the \u201cmultitudinous strands\u201d in the 1994 World Trade Center bombing trial, and the significance of parentheses in the politics of academic language.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Writing about the Danube in 2003 after a 1,750-mile journey along it, Mr. Bernstein <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/08\/01\/world\/the-danube-transformed-from-river-of-blood-to-river-of-hope.html\" title=\"\">observed<\/a>: \u201cRivers are symbols. You can not think of the Mississippi without also thinking of the American drama of race. The Seine is Parisian elegance; the Rhine, German national identity. The Yellow River is China immemorial.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As for the water on which he glided from the Black Forest to the Black Sea, it was \u201cthe river of exquisite stricken cities of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire,\u201d the \u201cBlue Danube Waltz\u201d of Johann Strauss, the Holocaust and \u201cthe clanging into place of the Iron Curtain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His journalism had sweep, an elegiac sense of the tragic inherent in human affairs, and often a subtly crafted argumentation rooted in thorough on-the-ground reporting. Mr. Bernstein, who retained throughout his life something of the nervousness and capacity for wonder of a cub reporter, never tired of working hard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI frankly do not like books that start from the premise that matters are too complex to allow for any generalizations,\u201d he wrote in \u201cFragile Glory,\u201d his rich 1990 portrait of France, a country \u201csomeplace midway between a certain persistent dream and an immovable reality.\u201d It was a nation, for Mr. Bernstein, that sought to \u201cglow with the torch of civilization itself\u201d even as it writhed over its \u201cmilitary and moral collapse in the face of the Nazis.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If cleareyed on the ineluctability of suffering, Mr. Bernstein was also an optimist. The first-generation son of Jewish immigrants from Hungary and Belarus, he grew up on a chicken farm in rural Connecticut, where he learned to sort small, medium, large, extra large and jumbo eggs and was schooled in scrappy struggle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Clothes were hand-me-downs; Hanukkah gifts, modest. The family rule was corn in the garden could not be picked until the water was boiling. At age 9, seated on his father\u2019s lap, he would drive the farm pickup truck to collect eggs at the chicken coops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">From that experience he took a distaste for posturing, a suspicion of fashion, an impatience with taboos and a deep belief in American possibility. He believed in a fair shake for everyone, including his journalistic subjects. In his view, it was to America, as a postwar power in Asia and Europe, that fell the responsibility to safeguard and extend the freedom from which his family had benefited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA Jewish intellectual from a chicken farm, he never swerved from his attachment to what America should stand for,\u201d the author Kati Marton said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1989\/06\/21\/world\/beijing-memo-crackdown-legacy-traditional-china-20th-century-communism.html\" title=\"\">dispatch from Beijing<\/a>, where he had been sent to report soon after the massacre of protesting students on the night of June 3-4, 1989, Mr. Bernstein quoted a saying used in Imperial China to persuade people to inform on traitors: \u201cFor the sake of the great cause, destroy your loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He pivoted, with the assurance of a China scholar, to ask whether, in this light, the Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s brutal slaying of hundreds of students was \u201ca product of 20th-century totalitarianism\u201d or reflective of the country\u2019s long tradition of harsh autocratic rule. As often with Mr. Bernstein, it was an attempt to reach beyond the news to the deeper historical currents of events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His conclusion was that there was something new and singular in the government\u2019s bald denial of what had happened and in its \u201centirely modern campaign of incessant propaganda\u201d against the \u201cthugs,\u201d as the government called its victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe notion here is that any opposition to the Government is not just wrong,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt is criminal, treasonous, counterrevolutionary, and those who led it deserve neither respect nor humane treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A Democrat of sometimes conservative views, Mr. Bernstein grappled with America\u2019s ideological drift long before cancel culture, gender-norm wars and the current angry fracture of the country over diversity, equity and inclusion policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a gently mocking <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1990\/07\/29\/magazine\/on-language-when-parentheses-are-transgressive.html\" title=\"\">\u201cOn Language\u201d column<\/a> in The New York Times Magazine from 1990, he wrote of an academic conference he had attended that was advertised as \u201cRewriting the (Post)modern and (Post)colonialism,\u201d and observed that the parentheses were a way of making readers think again about meanings \u201calways taken for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe parentheses were placed not only around words but also around parts of words,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThere was one paper titled \u2018Locating Un(re)presentable Desire: Narrational Transformations and Postmodern Man.\u2019 Another was \u2018It\u2019s Not (Post) Until it\u2019s Post(ed): (Post)modernism and the Terminological Endgames of Terrorism.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Drawing from that conference, he went on to note that \u201cour basic values\u201d were now commonly called \u201cthe dominant discourse,\u201d or even \u201cthe totalizing discourse,\u201d whose reputed ravages were most felt by \u201cthose outside the power structure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Attached to those increasingly contested basic American values, if aware of their need to evolve, he gave expression to his concerns in \u201cDictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America\u2019s Future,\u201d published in 1994. In that book, he argued that attempts to promote diversity had often stifled diversity, and through reporting across American boardrooms and classrooms, he chronicled what he saw as a treacherous, feel-good undermining of the nation\u2019s meritocratic, can-do vision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was a book that won Mr. Bernstein more enemies than friends even as it presaged ideological fissures destined to grow. He never shrank from difficult subjects: In 2009, he published \u201cThe East, the West, and Sex: A History,\u201d an exploration of the connection between sex and power told through the encounters of Western explorers, merchants and conquerors with Eastern cultures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe believed in truth, no matter where the chips fell,\u201d said David Margolick, a journalist and author. \u201cNobody had handed him anything. His integrity was absolute. He wrote what he thought without looking over his shoulder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Richard Paul Bernstein was born in New York on May 5, 1944, the first of two children of Herbert and Clare (Brown) Bernstein. The family moved soon after to a poultry farm in East Haddam, Conn., after the Jewish Agricultural Society, an organization established to provide farm training to Eastern European immigrants, gave his father a loan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Richard attended an Orthodox synagogue \u2014 \u201ca rickety old building cantilevered over a gully near the soda shop,\u201d in the words of his lifelong friend Donald Berwick \u2014 and graduated from Nathan Hale-Ray High School in nearby Moodus, before attending the University of Connecticut, where he earned a B.A. in history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Wanderlust already had a grip on him. He went on to earn an M.A. at Harvard University in history and East Asian languages, a course chosen in part because it offered the possibility of moving to Taiwan to study Mandarin. There was born a passion for Asia that never left him. It led to jobs as a stringer and later correspondent in Beijing for Time magazine before he joined The Times in 1982, initially as a reporter covering metropolitan New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Bernstein later served as United Nations bureau chief, Paris bureau chief, national cultural correspondent, book critic and Berlin bureau chief before leaving The Times in 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Judy Peritz, his younger sister, recalled how their father had given him a BB gun when he was 11. He would shoot at birds, and one day he hit one, and was appalled to see how the bird struggled and suffered from what he had done. \u201cHe never used the gun again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A deep kindness accompanied Mr. Bernstein to the end. Although not religious, he joined a Torah study group late in life, intent on exploring the meaning of his Jewishness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In addition to his son and sister, Mr. Bernstein is survived by his wife, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/markmorrisdancegroup.org\/profile\/36538\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Zhongmei Li<\/a>, a renowned Chinese classical dancer and choreographer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe all know death comes,\u201d he told Ms. Peritz just before he died. \u201cI would have loved to have more, but now understand that I won\u2019t. I accept that and am not afraid. I have lived a really wonderful and interesting life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/02\/business\/media\/richard-bernstein-dead.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Bernstein, a former correspondent and critic for The New York Times whose deep knowledge of Asia and Europe 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