Note: today, David Brooks wrote a new column about how the wealthy are walling off lower American classes from understanding the newest cultural signifiers, which contains an egregious paragraph about him taking his friend to a gourmet sandwich shop that has received ample ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Jul 11, 2017

David Brooks has spent so many years providing ideological cover for Republicans as the conservative movement descended into madness that he clearly started to buy into his own bullshit. Since the election of Trump, he can't quite seem to believe that what we're seeing is the ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Mar 17, 2017

David Brooks has spent years giving the Republican Party ideological cover as it devolved into the radicalized mess it's become. But now, he's so horrified by what he helped create that he's abandoned any attempt to whitewash what is happening and he's calling it like it is: ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Jan 31, 2017

Conservative columnist David Brooks sounds awfully reasonable these days, so reasonable that one might actually mistake him for a liberal. Brooks is also fed up with the Republican Party, an institution now so royally screwed up that Brooks is suggesting it forfeits the election ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In David Brooks's latest column for the New York Time, he remarks on a recent speech by British prime minister David Cameron that appears to him to represents a modern, progressive conservatism he finds deeply appealing. In his piece, titled "What Republicans Should Say," ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Poor David Brooks -- the New York Times columnist who has spent his career feeding the egos of America's upper classes with moralistic fables of economic darwinism and the need for blacks to adopt their values, is not having a good time. As the leading Republican figures ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

Conservative New York Times columnist and quasi-Obama EndorserDavid Brooks is out with a new op-ed that is getting hot and copious buzz for its utterly brutal dismemberment of Ted Cruz, whom Brooks ironically accuse of "brutalism" right in the headline. As loath as I am to step ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

David Brooks exemplifies what moderate conservatism should be like in America: a faintly traditional, gentle form of condescending assholishness that while irritating, isn't particularly offensive or dangerous. While Brooks represents what every other industrialized democracy ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The New York Times rocked America's world this weekend by coming out in favor of legalizing marijuana, and NBC News' Meet the Press celebrated by convening a panel made up of more squares than you can shake a Paul Lynde at (that reference was for the members of MTP's panel, who ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Feb 17, 2016

Happy Thursday. Let's just all keep trying to get by. Here's what's on the interweb: 1. Glenn Beck: I Played A Role In 'Helping Tear The Country Apart' Glenn Beck admitted Tuesday that he has some major regrets about his time at Fox News. “I remember it as an awful lot of ...read more

• By Bryce Rudow
  Feb 17, 2016

I’m one of the poor, lazy people New York Times columnist, and overly-privileged/perennially out of touch, champion for the oppressed moneyed interests, David Brooks, talked about in his recent column ‘The Inequality Problem’. Ben Cohen took Mr. Brooks to task for his ignorant, ...read more

• By Frederic Poag
  Feb 17, 2016

Much of the internet has piled onto New York Times columnist David Brooks for his recent musings on 'The Inequality Problem', and deservedly so. Not only was Brooks timing spectacularly bad (British charity Oxfam just released a shocking report showing 85 people have as much ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

David Brooks, the man the New York Times drafted in to flatter the upper middle classes has a habit of putting his foot in it. Behind the elegantly crafted sentences that include words like 'invocations',  'accoutrements' and 'cloying' (all in one breath), is a pretty nasty guy ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

"It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients." - New York Times columnist David Brooks on Egyptians supposed mental deficiencies. Yes, David Brooks has done it again - written a monstrously offensive ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

David Brook's latest NYT column on gay marriage is, well, rather weird. After reading it a couple of times, it's clear Brooks thinks gay marriage is ok, but his argument is so convoluted and condescending it makes you want to dunk his head down a toilet bowl. Brooks ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

• By Guest Contributor
  Feb 17, 2016

In a truly astonishing piece, David Brooks manages to apologize for those who failed to report on the horrific sexual abuse scandal at Penn State by intellectualizing human responses to witnessing crime. Apparently, not reporting child rape is ok because: Even in ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Image via Wikipedia Light posting today, but here's an interesting quote from David Brooks on what he sees as the superiority of British political culture: British leaders and pundits know their counterparts better. They are less likely to get away with distortions and factual ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018