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I read and thought about Mr. Brooks essay of October 25th 2012, What Moderation Means while I was reading, and wanting to concentrate on Jurgen Habermas' The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. But I found that this essay contains some of … Continue reading →

The full cast of characters of the potent mythology of the current Republican Party are front and center for Mr Douthat's essay titled 'A Time for Choosing', posted November 3,2012. A profligate Federal Government that spends more than it takes … Continue reading →

The full cast of characters of the potent mythology of the current Republican Party are front and center for Mr Douthat's essay titled 'A Time for Choosing', posted November 3,2012. A profligate Federal Government that spends more than it takes … Continue reading →

Decided voters/undecided voters Political insiders/political outsidersHigh information voter/low information voterPolitical skeptic/political believerWise Athenian/Colosseum mob (a historical miss) Along with these binary opposites, the very stuff of the Structuralist intellectual endeavor, comes a certain convenient myth: The bipartisan back and forth … Continue reading →

This essay by Ross Douthat titled Washington Versus America is a history of a selected income and social strata of Washington, D.C.: this might even be considered , in a moment of literary charity, a 21st Century revision of Henry … Continue reading →

David Brooks little missive to candidate Romney is a mild scolding, for being so stupid as to so forthrightly argue, in front of a private dinner of supporters his flagrant class and political prejudices, about a large number of Americans. … Continue reading →

“Why did God put Barack Obama on this earth?” A question filled with promise in a branch of Christian theology called eschatology, but certainly not in a political essay by Mr. David Brooks, the doubtful might ask, if they weren't … Continue reading →

Here is a more reality based description of Mr. Ross Douthat's notion of 'policy entrepreneurship', of some weeks ago in his NYT column, and it's relevance to Paul Ryan as Republican Budget Guru:"Mr Ryan is often called author of the … Continue reading →

David Brooks never tires of telling his readers that he takes the mean, the rational political/moral position, in regards to the antagonists that he creates in all his essays. In addition, today, he admonishes the hyper-individualist Republican Party, while reminding … Continue reading →

You have to credit Mr. Ross Douthat for the ability to produce an almost 750 word essay on the natural superiority of the Romneys, both Ann and Mitt. It looks like a long and ardent genuflection in homage to the … Continue reading →