Again, why wouldn’t you want to read things addressed to other sorts of audiences if you thought altering public opinion on that topic was important? Maybe you don’t care about altering public opinion but a large number of people here say they do care.
I just don’t think David Brooks, from what I know of him, is worth spending any time on. The snippets I could access at the NYT give no impression of substance. The criticisms of him on Wikipedia are similar to those I have already seen on Andrew Gelman’s blog: he is more concerned to write witty, urbane prose without much concern for actual truth than to do the sort of thing that, say, Scott Alexander does.
Btw, I have not voted positively or negatively on the OP.
Again, why wouldn’t you want to read things addressed to other sorts of audiences if you thought altering public opinion on that topic was important? Maybe you don’t care about altering public opinion but a large number of people here say they do care.
I just don’t think David Brooks, from what I know of him, is worth spending any time on. The snippets I could access at the NYT give no impression of substance. The criticisms of him on Wikipedia are similar to those I have already seen on Andrew Gelman’s blog: he is more concerned to write witty, urbane prose without much concern for actual truth than to do the sort of thing that, say, Scott Alexander does.
Btw, I have not voted positively or negatively on the OP.