David Brooks is an idiot. That reads like an op-ed from a student newspaper. He is a lazy thinker who goes for the obvious.
http://www.metafilter.com/81873/Harlem-Childrens-Zonehttp://www.metafilter.com/74117/Asian-socities-drive-like-this
Can anybody tell me why David Brooks is taken seriously. Is it entirely because other people take him seriously? The first thing I ever read by him was "One Nation, Slightly Divisible", which read better as satire of the conservative urban perspective on the rest of the country, rather than an attempt at investigating it. Since then, I haven't heard or read anything by him that convinces me that he could even bluff his way out of a parking ticket.
I would say that he's the Paris Hilton of political commentary but she recently proved that she's more convincing at pushing energy policy.
