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David Brooks, Exhibit A in PBS Avoiding Real Conservatives Feb. 14, 2025
One of the reasons I have long inveighed against "public" TV is its tendency to avoid authentic cons... Read More
Trump Supporters Are Responsible for Their Choices Aug. 11, 2023
I applaud people attempting to bridge divides in America, so two cheers to the New York Times' David... Read More
Danger of Authoritarianism May Come From the Center, Not the Right Jun. 01, 2018
"Across Europe and North America, centrists are the least supportive of democracy, the least committ... Read More
Is 'Fire and Fury' Fizzling? Jan. 12, 2018
The most disappointed people in America this past week must be those Trump execrators who opened the... Read More
Merkel -- and Davos -- Rebuked in Germany Nov. 24, 2017
It's been a tough era for Davos Man, the personification of the great and the good who meet in the W... Read More
David Brooks and Obama's Ongoing Pant Crease Feb. 12, 2016
If you read The New York Times "conservative" columnist David Brooks, you might better grasp the cha... Read More
How Attitude Trumped Conservative Thought Feb. 10, 2016
On Monday, grassroots Republican favorite Donald Trump repeated the phrase when an audience member c... Read More
David Brooks Loses It on Ted Cruz Jan. 13, 2016
New York Times columnist David Brooks poses as a moderate who never stoops to being crabbily doctrin... Read More
When Americans Really Were Exceptional Jan. 02, 2016
David Brooks, a New York Times columnist and my valued colleague on PBS' "NewsHour," has told of hav... Read More
Where Are the Passionate Editors? Oct. 23, 2015
Stipulated: David Brooks isn't that smart. As editor of The Weekly Standard — the neocon rag... Read More
Stop Insulting Minimum Wage Workers Feb. 18, 2014
Beating down low-paid workers is not only not nice but also not necessarily good for business. And t... Read More
Five Years Later: How's that Wreckovery Working Out? Feb. 14, 2014
On Feb. 17, 2009, President Obama promised the sun and the moon and the stars. That was the day, fiv... Read More
In Praise of Libertarian Judgmentalism Jan. 10, 2014
As a Denver Post columnist from 2004-11, I spent a considerable amount of time writing pieces advoca... Read More
From Teachers, a Lesson in Character Mar. 15, 2011
It's a question on a lot of parents' minds these days: How do we teach character? New York Times col... Read More
Elites Should Blame Selves, Not Obama, for Believing His Messianic Pretensions Dec. 05, 2010
Have you noticed among the Obama-supporting elite a desperate agony upon realizing that he is not qu... Read More
Nation Building Might Work, but It's Not Worth It Aug. 30, 2010
In the 1959 film "The Mouse That Roared," an imaginary European nation called the Duchy of... Read More
