Monthly Archives: April 2012

At the utterly respectable Financial Times, Mr. Edward Luce's latest essay sounds the alarm at the possibility of the election of Mitt Romney to the office of President. It isn't so much the completely pliable politics of Mr. Romney, to … Continue reading →

Dear Lexington, Your recent essay Are the Republicans mad? reeks of contempt and disdain: of an Olympian view of the great politically unwashed: Messrs. Mann, Ornstein and Norquist. How very clever of you to find a contempt and disdain that … Continue reading →

Here are the opening paragraphs that pass as arguments in David Brooks latest essay in the New York Times grotesquely titled Is Our Adults Learning. Is it humor? "In 2009, we had a big debate about whether to pass a … Continue reading →

The Creative Monopoly is the title of the David Brooks essay of April 22, 2012 a title that speaks volumes about the inflated yet prosaic thought of Mr. Brooks. He can take the subject of creativity and render it almost … Continue reading →

David Brooks begins his latest essay of April 19,2012 Testing The Teachers by sounding a pathetically melodramatic note, that deserves full quotation, awash in purple as it is: “There’s an atmosphere of grand fragility hanging over America’s colleges. The grandeur … Continue reading →

David Brooks is adept at mimicking the rhetorical style of rational argument,but only in self-defense. Mr. Brooks only argues in ideological terms that have the ability to move the political discourse in a favorable partisan direction. We can see quite … Continue reading →

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He has hemmed me in so that I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with fetters. Even when I cry out and plead for help he rejects my prayer. He has barred my road with blocks of stone and … Continue reading →