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’60 Minutes’ Hands Andrew Sullivan the Mic for an Unenlightening Lecture
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticOn Sunday, “60 Minutes” aired an interview that looked a lot like handing someone a megaphone.Correspondent Scott Pelley aired a profile of the conservative author Andrew Sullivan, one that ran with no clearer time peg than that, as Pelley put it in his introduction, Sullivan is “anxious about the future of the republic.” At some length, Sullivan, who currently publishes his newsletter “The Weekly Dish” via Substack, was allowed to expand upon his thoughts at some length. He is anxious because of a divided political climate in this country, one in which what Sullivan described as tribalism led, for instance, to the events of Jan.