Posts Tagged David Brooks
Essential Reading
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on February 28th, 2012
This morning’s column by David Brooks is a dead-on accurate description of what has happened to the GOP. I was going to excerpt a paragraph, but I couldn’t decide which one, because Brooks goes from pointed observation to perfect analogy and back. (He notes that the primaries haven’t been about policy differences; rather, they’ve been [...]
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Another Kind of Polarization?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on January 23rd, 2012
In a column justt before the South Carolina primary, David Brooks relayed a number of conversations with Republican primary voters. His treatment of them was what one might expect of the always civil Brooks–sympathetic and respectful. But one line in particular struck me. After commenting on the nostalgia expressed by several voters, Brooks noted that such [...]
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The Rabbi Had a Point
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging, Uncategorized on April 18th, 2011
One of my favorite stories is the one about the Rabbi of a small shtetl, or village, who was asked to mediate a quarrel between two residents. He listened to one side intently, then said, “yes, you are right.” Then he listened to the other man’s position, and said “yes, you are right.” A bystander [...]
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Begging to Differ
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance, Random Blogging on November 25th, 2009
David Brooks is one of the few remaining conservative columnists whose commentary is always rational. I may agree or disagree with the substance of any given column, but Brooks is a remnant of the days when liberals and conservatives disagreed about aspects of a shared reality–unlike today, when they appear to inhabit different solar systems. [...]
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