RIP David Brooks

He asked his millennial wife for the name of a popular musician?

brooks clearly loves youngboy's commitment to hard work and achievement under capitalism (never broke again)

I would argue that anyone willing to marry David Brooks in 2017, millennial or no, isn't going to have a clue who NBA YoungBoy is.

brb gonna collect on my bet that we'd talk about youngboy more on the david brooks thread than on the rolling rap thread

youngbobos

ffs

Readers, many of us got involved in the Black Lives Matter marches last summer. Do Black lives matter to you only when they serve your political purpose? Shouldn’t we be marching to get Black and brown children back safely into schools right now? https://t.co/KIv7pijw1c

— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) January 29, 2021

even for brooks that's fucking low

Pretty gross that the USA has chosen teachers to be the scapegoats of our COVID malaise.

i see that ppl have already made the joke that Brooks must be annoyed w his child bride

i never would have guessed he'd cite alec macgillis, who has become baltimore's biggest covidiot and doesn't give a shit about students in baltimore schools at any other time. last year schools had to close because they had no heat. every year they close on several days because there is no air conditioning. there is no chance they will improve ventilation in any way. these people make me so fucking mad. they would never suggest distributing their wealth to these places to help the kids have better lives. love to get paid $$$ to write context-free, ahistorical garbage every day.

i mean

One study found that the loss of learning could reduce the lifetime income of today’s American students by 3 percent. A study in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that their increased financial stress could be associated with a collective loss of 13.8 million years of life.

when have you cared about this before

just a rich guy, thinkin baout things for the new york times

i wonder if any studies have ever been done before, in any other context, about what causes disparities in earning potential and life expectancy 🤔

oh gross and of course it is Friday, when he's on the PBS Newshour; I always vow to leave the room when he comes on but end up hate-watching.

Readers, many of us got involved in the Black Lives Matter marches last summer

ah yes, who can forget David Brooks' important contributions to the movement

this reminded me https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/05/republicans-democrats-differ-over-factors-k-12-schools-should-consider-in-deciding-whether-to-reopen/

White adults are the most likely to say K-12 schools in their area should offer in-person school five days a week: 24% say this, compared with about one-in-ten Black (8%), Hispanic (10%) and Asian (12%) adults. Among Black Americans, 43% say that, all things considered, schools in their area should provide online instruction five days a week, as do 39% of Hispanic Americans and 35% of Asian Americans. About a quarter of white Americans (23%) share this view.

Opinions also vary by income, with lower-income adults (35%) more likely than those with middle (28%) or upper (20%) incomes to say K-12 schools in their area should provide online instruction five days a week. In turn, pluralities of middle-income (37%) and upper-income (44%) adults say schools in their area should provide a mix of online and in-person instruction.

HMMM weird results given what david brooks is telling us

many of us... Shouldn’t we...

file under: Gross misuse of "us" and "we"

he is so loathsome. damn shame PBS & NPR let this dude come on and launder borderline maga takes for centrists

this reminded me https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/05/republicans-democrats-differ-over-factors-k-12-schools-should-consider-in-deciding-whether-to-reopen/

White adults are the most likely to say K-12 schools in their area should offer in-person school five days a week: 24% say this, compared with about one-in-ten Black (8%), Hispanic (10%) and Asian (12%) adults. Among Black Americans, 43% say that, all things considered, schools in their area should provide online instruction five days a week, as do 39% of Hispanic Americans and 35% of Asian Americans. About a quarter of white Americans (23%) share this view.
Opinions also vary by income, with lower-income adults (35%) more likely than those with middle (28%) or upper (20%) incomes to say K-12 schools in their area should provide online instruction five days a week. In turn, pluralities of middle-income (37%) and upper-income (44%) adults say schools in their area should provide a mix of online and in-person instruction.

HMMM weird results given what david brooks is telling us

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TBF, these poll results are about 6 months old and from before the school year began.

ok

I mean, there is evidence that remote learning has been quite bad for the most vulnerable. Obviously David Brooks doesn't give a shit and has an agenda. Personally, I advocate for schools in my own district to be more open because I think it's the right decision, but I would never invoke "the most vulnerable" as a basis.

remote learning has been quite bad for the most vulnerable, just like everything is, always! he doesn't care! we should give people things, like good schools and food and health care, and less police. BUT WE DON'T. we didn't do anything to contain the pandemic. to make opening schools this one issue we can consider in isolation, so we can get in another dig at teachers' unions, is wrong and stupid.

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Wait was DB’s wedding video linked itt already? Because it proves how much he cares about young Black people.

Can't believe Bruce Springsteen gave this union-bashing tool a shout-out on his radio show last week.

has David Brooks ever had sex, even with himself?

*shudders*

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6oOVtuWsAYiL9x.jpg

can we not?

NYT columnist David Brooks draws a second salary for leading an Aspen Institute project funded by Facebook, Jeff Bezos' dad, & others. He didn't disclose this to readers. The Times refused to say if the paper was aware of Brooks' second salary.

Facebook gave $250,000 in 2018 to help fund Weave, Brooks' project at the Institute. A few months later Brooks began promoting Weave in the Times. He never disclosed the FB money, his salary, or other funders. Weave received just over 1.5 million in 2018, the latest $$ available.

looking forward to this precedent being enforced

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/local/critical-shopper-albo-fired-from-new-york-times/1903849/

David Brooks leaves New York Times for Substack

hmm that didn't work so well

does brooks have loyal readers who follow him?

uuuuugh

probably but fwiw that was a poorly executed rickroll attempt

bummer

'stackrolled

Can barely stand that this guy has his books arranged by color FFS

Does he have a movement disorder or does he always have to pee during his PBS spots or what

Any woman with his teeth would never, ever be on TV, not even as a talking head on PBS

(see also: any woman as unattractive as fucking Mitch McConnell would never be elected to that office)

Why do I do this to myself every Friday night

He always seems so eager and boyish. He's 59 years old for crying out loud.

In my mind the Aspen Ideas Festival is 200 copies of David Brooks nattering on to one another

i.e. a nightmare

name of said festival surely a contradiction in terms

is it guys leaving their wives for their much younger research assistants pic.twitter.com/u8QCPEBvA2

— Josh Fruhlinger (@jfruh) July 30, 2021

Brooks's latest big read for the Atlantic posits the creative class (or bobos) as the furry mogwai who seemed cute and harmless in the late '90s with their fancy strollers and coffee drinks but who, as their cultural power has grown, have transformed into vicious gremlins who now poison our politics and culture. I thought his idea that the US class structure, which used to be a monolithic sandwich of upper/middle/lower, has now bifurcated into two separate red and blue hierarchies was interesting. He still has a knack for cultural taxonomy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/blame-the-bobos-creative-class/619492/

Trump voters listed the media—the epitome of creative-class production—as the biggest threat to America.

oh was that the reason

Soooo many unexamined assumptions in that piece. So many questions that go unanswered because he doesn't even bother to ask them. He just lays down ideas that would fall apart if he took his own logic just one or two steps further, but he never, ever does. If you really tried to pick it apart, you'd probably give yourself a stroke.

Brooks is an absolute idiot, and that piece was nothing one wouldn't expect from him. Lazy, myopic crap.

article would have been way more entertaining if he actually used the mogwai/gremlin analogy

Don't give them a soy latte after midnight