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He's showing his sympathy for things liberals care about. He takes great pains to sound evenhanded. It could be because he's trying to win over liberal NY Times
by mtdewcmu 13y ago
He's showing his sympathy for things liberals care about. He takes great pains to sound evenhanded. It could be because he's trying to win over liberal NY Times readers, or, it's possible that he's unaware that he's a conservative.
- marshray 13y agoI really don't see this as a liberal-conservative issue.
- mtdewcmu 13y ago"...the atomization of society, the loosening of social bonds ... deep suspicion of authority, the strong belief that hierarchies and organizations are suspect, ... the assumption that individual preference should be supreme... the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism, the fraying of the social fabric..." It's the culture wars. The issue might not be inherently about left and right, but the way David Brooks is framing it is straight from the culture wars of the 1960s. I think he's slightly in denial, but he seems to argue with himself and then take reliably conservative positions.