I'm not sure why though, the NYT, would need to know the name that is purposely never used.

If you really need the name sooo bad, then just don't dox him and drop the article. That's perfectly fine.

As long as they don't dox him everyone is cool.

If they can't write the article without doxxing him then they should just drop the article.

Whatever they do they shouldn't dox him. And if they can't write the article without doing so, then they shouldn't write it.

It's very simple. Suppose the following.

1) A man has a law degree from Harvard and was publishing nationally when he was in high-school.

2) He has a set of opinions and schools invite him to speak.

3) Lot's of students ask him questions many who strongly disagree with him and attempt to "take him down".

4) All of this is on video, hours and hours of video.

OK

Now, in what possible world would this person not "own" people at a high frequency?

If he wasn't "owning" at a high frequency then that person should be embarrassed.

You see "Ben Shapiro owns X" and not, Ben Shapiro in conversation with Ezra Klein, or Ben Shapiro telling his audience that their opinions aren't worth anything if they don't spend time reading and listening to the best voices on the other side.

"Ben Shapiro the guy who owns people" is a meme because he's more of a threat then "Ben Shapiro the guy who certainly should speak slower, has reasonable arguments, even when he's wrong" because that Ben Shapiro, that second one is actually scary. People could listen to what he has to say.

The right's loudest voices have never been the brightest, or when they were bright, the most reasonable. Shapiro raises the level of discourse on the right by a mile.

I have yet to hear Ben Shapiro say something novel or interesting. I like him though, because for the first time a popular voice on the right is educated and can reason from premises to conclusions, in steps, and is willing to discuss the validity AND soundness of his arguments.

By consistently doing that alone, he's in the top 1% of journalists. He's the exact opposite of what the right is "supposed" to look like.

And if you look to reasonable then you'll become a "Ben Shapiro owns" meme or a "binders full of woman" meme.

It's not elitist. It's as undetailed, straightforward, nonpolitical description of the blog that you will get.