David Brooks trades in NYT puerile chatter, that appeals to an auidence that thinks that the cadre of Friedman, Brooks, Stephens, French, and Guests, represents a kind of Wisdom?

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Dec 22, 2025

The reader need only this of the selection of his books:

How to Know a Person (2023): Focuses on truly seeing and connecting with others.

The Second Mountain (2019): Explores the quest for a more meaningful, moral life.

The Road to Character (2015): Examines the importance of inner virtues.

The Social Animal (2011): Delves into love, character, and achievement.

Bobos in Paradise (2000): A classic look at the new upper class.

On Paradise Drive (2004): A humorous take on modern American life.

But reader Norman Vincent Peale isn’t the most apt comparison with Mr. Brooks’ public moralizing, think of Reinhold Niebuhr :

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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