Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Chicagoland / Politics / Clout City Eat the Poor
Posted by Whet Moser on 11.24.09 at 01:25 PM
Just when I try to stop reading David Brooks, Shame of the University of Chicago, someone pulls me back in.
During the first many decades of this nation’s existence, the United States was a wide-open, dynamic country with a rapidly expanding economy. It was also a country that tolerated a large amount of cruelty and pain — poor people living in misery, workers suffering from exploitation.
It's still bullshit, like ususal, but this time it feels like Brooks is hustling himself, which, insofar as it's a more inadvertently honest form of bullshit, may well be an improvement.
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Definitely bullshit. I was infuriated by the column when I read it last night. Way to collapse our complex and interesting national history--a history that might offer some guidance in evaluating current rhetoric over health care reform--into a binary choice between ill-defined normative concepts. He sucks.
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on 11/24/2009 at 7:40 PM
