RIP David Brooks

xp the use of "appeal to authority" is kind of amazing. who is Tyler Cowen? well, he's David Brooks's friend. what makes him a good judge of what makes someone a public intellectual? not sure here, but he's David's friend, and we trust David

"Choosey Maters" is my favorite Smokey song iirc

apparently Tyler Cowen is a libertarian economist and blogger, not coincidentally another shithead who also gets paid to write by the NYT.

tyler cowen is a big-wig dignity wraith at george mason university (the academic version of mordor) funded by the sauron boys, charles and david koch

https://economics.gmu.edu/people/tcowen

a real doozy from our boy today. apparently Democrats are throwing away their chance at winning overwhelming legislative majorities simply because they can't shake this nettlesome need to defend a woman's sovereignty over her own body. at one point Brooks envisions a world in which Roe v Wade no longer exists and the decision of whether to keep abortion legal is left up to the states. the way he hand-waves the idea that (in his own estimation) roughly 40% of states might make it illegal literally took my breath away.

hey they can always move to a nice blue state like his

this fuckin guy

We need to acknowledge our vulnerability here.

Isn't this like the definition of concern trolling?

next column is gonna be about your decades-younger wife taking issue with your misogynist views

i still can't get over the huge disparity between his idiotic & inarticulate columns and his appearances on PBS with mark shields, where he comes off fairly reasonable and milquetoast. whoever's ghost-writing his columns is trolling

I can; different environments draw out different aspects of our personality, don’t they? One can be a real asshole online and quite personable face-to-face and be so unconsciously

it's not just a difference of disposition, he's ideologically a different person. i get what you're saying though

Maybe the camera light triggers some deep personality flip; the Manchurian Pundit or something

Often a fellow with a new young wife becomes an embarrassment. David Brooks is the same embarrassment he was with the old wife.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) February 21, 2018

https://www.mediaite.com/online/twitter-blasts-david-brooks-for-suggesting-the-left-should-show-respect-to-gun-owners/

Sadly, not that kind of blasting.

I had this weird dream, it was some TV show where David Brooks was going to be "embedded" as a player on an NBA team (I guess like George Plimpton & the Lions?)

anyway I was watching this show on TV and he was sitting there wearing a basketball uniform and shoes and stuff but still wearing his "smart guy" glasses and was just sitting there in the timeout never shutting up and making all these "observations" and the players were clearly annoyed then he was actually talking to the coach about the play coming out of timeout as if he expected to actually play in the game

lol I can see it

i bought some sopressata today and it is impossible for me to hear that word without thinking about that dumb fuckng column from last year

Imagine lying in bed and hearing David Brooks whispering "sopressata" in your ear.

!!

no

no im not gonna fuckin do that, my guy

helps i don't eat dairy or have a secretary

what a lazy stupid hack, how does he still have a job

let's go to the source......ah yes "good and evil," the principal antagonism of marxist thought pic.twitter.com/aVN6cXaBoh

— Shuja Haider (@shujaxhaider) March 9, 2018

there have been some really weird and poorly-formed socialist critiques of public choice theory lately

hold my beer and i'll show you how really weird and poorly-formed critiques should be done

if I wanted to read long-winded spiels of received wisdom, I don't need to read Scott Alexander. I can go back and read my own posts here.

someone get David Brooks on ilx (no)

you assume he hasn't been here all along

the bad takes are coming from inside the message board

how does he still have a job

🤔

poor davey, he so confoozed....

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/opinion/speaking-as-a-white-male.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region

his widdle head hurt....

I’m trying to think this through and I’m not sure how

brooks sums up his entire career in 11 words

it's incredible to me that he had not yet used this title

An even better career summary:

I’m a columnist and I’m supposed to come to a conclusion, but I’m confused.

On the one hand, the drive to bring in formerly marginalized groups has obviously been one of the great achievements of our era. When you put together a panel discussion or a work team, even on a subject like oncology, you don’t want to have a bunch of white males sitting up there. We know that something valuable will be lost.

gosh, even onocology? heavens

One of the things I’ve learned in a lifetime in journalism is that people are always more unpredictable than their categories.

david brooks is always going to panel discussions about oncology

whether the oncologists like it or not

i would love to know what each word of that piece of shit actually cost the NYT.

^^^

on PBS today he said John Bolton "isn't the worst pick in the world"

Gun, meet mouth

If you ever wondered who David Brooks was (literally) listening to

Are there better podcast hosts than Tyler Cowen and Sam Harris? I can’t imagine...

— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) April 12, 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/De3jmuVUcAIJN-s.jpg:large

What a bargain

twofer

not every day you get a 2-for-1 on the best stuff in the store

why is brooks admitting that he is a nazi, risky career move

i thought it was all the rage these days?

sadly that is not a real headline, but i don't think we should let that dissuade us from punching either david brooks or nazis in the face

HERE WE GO pic.twitter.com/Weh92up9tK

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 8, 2018