At the end of last week, the Economist made an unusual concession to critics and apologized for a review. Ed Baptist's economic history of slavery, The Half Has Never Been Told, was criticized as not "objective" because "almost all the blacks in his book are victims, almost all the whites villains." The Internet rose with terrible anger, and Baptist told reporter Dylan Scott that the apology was well-taken. "One thing that really did aggravate me about the review," he said, "was this suggestion and this sort of implicit argument that ex-slaves had some sort of vested interest and are unreliable reporters on what actually happened."