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.
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.