Lifelong southerner and Civil War buff Bill Kristol expanded on his principled defense of the flying Confederate Flag this morning: In a nutshell, Kristol is for flying the Confederate Flag because liberals are against it. (To be completely fair, he’s not saying he thinks that states should continue to fly the Confederate Flag, merely that …
David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
This is the beginning of a new age
As many of you know, I’m fueled creatively by my massive hatred of David Brooks. David Zwieg has a great article taking down one of Bobo’s new money lines: It was one thing if Brooks made erroneous claims in a one-off lecture. It was something else entirely to put those same claims in a book. …
On The Unbearable Lightness Of David Brooks
I know I’ve been mostly absent, and will continue to be so. (At least until this makes it through copy editing.)* I know as well that there’s too much to be talked about to waste much time on the utterly predictable. And I also know that what I’m about to point out is far less …
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Helpless helpless helpless
I’m not sure I’m ready for 20 — if not God forbid 68 or 116 — months of Scott Walker. Are you?
Vaccines and free riders
The anti-vaccine crowd is a combination of woo guzzling liberals and conservatives. The biggest difference is that the liberals who are not vaccinating their kids don’t have significant elements of their favorably inclined political representation encouraging them while it looks like anti-vaccination will be yet another litmus test used to determine who today is a …
David Brooks Auditions For Graham Greene
The Quiet American is a marvelous book, or rather, it is one in which Greene’s utter disdain for the reckless incompetence of power gets a near perfect expression. Take this snippet from near the end of the work: Pyle said, “It’s awful.” He looked at the wet on his shoes and said in a sick …
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Friday Evening Open Thread: The Opposite of Everything Good & True
Meet Jeff! Jeff flew his nannies to Davos on a jet. Jeff wants Americans to lower their own high expectations http://t.co/49oFfOf2VV — Max Abelson (@maxabelson) January 21, 2015 From the Bloomberg article: … “America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence,” …
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