This may get me downvoted, but I'm getting a very strong sense that someone (or a number of someones) with some, ahem, strong right leanings have been posting a

This may get me downvoted, but I'm getting a very strong sense that someone (or a number of someones) with some, ahem, strong right leanings have been posting articles to HN within the last 24 hours. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just that it's kind of embarrassing when Brooks is the best you can do. Brooks is well known for spouting things that seem almost like satire of conservative viewpoints; it's more likely he dresses up his points in "progressive" sounding terms in an attempt to get people to agree with him.