Showing posts with label David Brooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Brooks. Show all posts
Saturday, July 6, 2013

Quote for Day: David Brooks's "Neurologically Miraculous" Cognitive Dissonance re: the GOP

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At Huffington Post, Marty Kaplan observes that David Brooks appears, well, a tad bit irony-challenged , if he's capable of wri...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The End of Men Discussion: Reflections

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Occasionally, David Brooks will write a column that I'll find worth reading.  To be honest (and I've said this repeatedly her...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

David Frum's "Conversion": Neocon Morality Tales and History's Judgment

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Mark Oppenheimer's fascinating roadmap of the twists and turns neocon Wunderkind David Frum has taken in his talking-head career i...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Katrina vanden Heuvel on Corrupt, Unhelpful "Center" and Its Flight from Reality

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As a complement to the two postings I've just made: there's been valuable discussion recently of the shortcomings of beltway ...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

David Brooks Misses the Point Again: What Has Gone Wrong with American Society . . . .

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Speaking of the inability of centrist powerbrokers to see and learn (I'm building on what I just published about the teachable mome...
Friday, January 6, 2012

Mr. Santorum the Catholic: Really?

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And speaking of circuses (I did so just now, didn't I?): with the spectacle that has just taken place in the cornfields of America...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

The News That's Fit to Tell: End-of-Week List

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From a week of news-reading in which I haven't felt sufficient energy to comment on these stories as carefully as I might have wi...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

David Brooks on Obama's (Unproven) Break with the Center: Continued Special Pleading for the Super-Rich

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I'm glad to see David Brooks's overwrought cri du coeur on behalf of rich folks being bullied by big, bad Mr. Obama getting ...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

David Brooks on the Atrophy of Theology Today: A Matter of Perspective

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I'm not surprised to see a number of leading figures of the American Catholic intellectual center celebrating David Brooks' recent ...
Friday, January 14, 2011

David Brooks on Niebuhrian Need for Renewed Sense of Sin: Where Does Incivility Arise in American Society?

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Moderate conservatives like David Brooks are eager to bring civility back to American society--to retie the now-frayed ties that bind us....
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

War on the Right: New Brand, Same Old Product

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John C. Santore reports at Media Matters yesterday that there’s increasing internecine fighting in the American political right, as the Rep...
Thursday, October 1, 2009

Continued Merging of Religious and Teabagger Right: Right-Wing Watch on Take Back America Conference

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Readers know that I’ve been paying attention to an emerging meme in neocon rhetoric, which weds traditional culture-war presuppositions with...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

O Tempora, O Mores: On the Politico-Religious Uses of the Calvinist Myth in American Culture

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I blogged yesterday about an emerging neoconservative meme represented in yesterday’s op-ed piece by David Brooks in the New York Times . ...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

David Brooks Ends the Culture Wars, or Does He? New Neocon Meme about Self Restraint

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As neoconservative political and religious commentators cast about these days for some new theoretical center to ground a badly faltering co...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Jindal on Obama: A Betrayal of Catholic Tradition about the Role of Government

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Returning for a moment to Andrew Sullivan’s blog today ( here ): Sullivan links to a discussion by David Brooks at Direct Democracy of Bobby...