BY TOM TOMORROW
David Brooks last week: Members of the second and much more persuasive school of thought on inequality say the key issue is skills. Lawrence Katz, formerly of the Clinton administration, now of Harvard, puts it this way: Across many nations, the market increasingly rewards people with high social and customer-service skills. A contractor who can …
In this morning’s column, Brooks comes up with a clever new nickname for Markos — the Keyboard Kingpin, ha ha ha! — and says that he is the “moral doppleganger” of Tom Delay. I think David Brooks has not been this insightful since he suggested that women should spend the years between 20 and 40 …
My standard response in reading a David Brooks column is, “Has he ever–?” As in: “Has he ever meet/seen/experienced the person, place, or thing upon which he is opining?” His Sunday column, replete with the usual strawmen (or more accurately, straw-women), does not disappoint. First, she’s wrong with her astonishing assertion that high-paying jobs lead …
Brooks: A year ago I called the head of a prominent liberal think tank to ask him who his favorite philosopher was. If I’d asked about health care, he could have given me four hours of brilliant conversation, but on this subject he stumbled and said he’d call me back. He never did. Let me …
David Brooks was out jogging on the mall and saw some teabaggers interacting with actual black people, and because no one was literally shouting the n-word or fashioning a noose, he concludes that racism plays absolutely no part in whatever it is that drives this — well, I almost wrote “political movement” but I’m not …