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David Brooks
January 12, 2024
Timothy Noah
The GOP Is Dying. Time for a Whig Revival?
For conservatives who’ve soured on the sorry state of the Trumpian Republican Party, their new home might be an old home.
September 21, 2023
Edith Olmsted
David Brooks Is Getting Absolutely Roasted Over His $78 Airport Meal
The New York Times columnist seems to have left out some details about his tab.
August 8, 2023
Timothy Noah
The Commentariat Lets Donald Trump Off the Hook
Stop arguing the former president’s utterances are too obviously vile to be plausibly illegal. He’s just a cheap crook.
March 6, 2021
Alex Shephard
David Brooks and the Endless Grift of the Conservative Commentariat
Conservative columnists have been raking in money from big business for decades.
July 5, 2019
Magazine
John Patrick Leary
How Washington’s Elite Learned to Love Policy Wonks
They believe democracy is best left to the experts.
June 5, 2019
Jacob Bacharach
David Brooks’s Moral Journey
The New York Times columnist's new book, “The Second Mountain,” is a fount of easily won wisdom.
April 24, 2019
Ben Schwartz
The Trigger Presidency
How shock jock comedy gave way to Donald Trump’s Republican Party
December 17, 2018
Jeet Heer
The death of
The Weekly Standard
brings jeers and tears.
June 13, 2018
Jeet Heer
David Brooks needs a name for his new religion.
February 16, 2018
Magazine
Win McCormack
Liberalism After Liberalism
The civic republican tradition and its lost treasure
February 15, 2018
Magazine
Kevin Baker
The Myth of Normal America
There are no good old days to return to in U.S. politics. The truth about a post-Trump era.
February 15, 2018
Jeet Heer
The Case for “Retreatism” in the Trump Era
Centrist columnists David Brooks and Andrew Sullivan are in despair over today's politics. An essay from the Great Depression suggests a cure.
January 10, 2018
Jeet Heer
The Republicans Killed Anti-Trumpism
The GOP capitulated to the president. Now the Democrats represent the only meaningful opposition.
September 22, 2017
Jeet Heer
David Brooks still can’t see how central racism is to right-wing populism.
August 11, 2017
Sarah Jones
David Brooks should resign as a
New York Times
columnist.
July 11, 2017
Clio Chang
David Brooks’s Italian sandwich anecdote is the least damning thing about his column.
June 21, 2017
Jeet Heer
Anti-Anti-Trumpism Is the Glue Holding Together the Republican Party
Jon Ossoff's loss in Georgia shows the potency of attacking Trump's critics, as the conservative media (even David Brooks!) hop on the bandwagon.
May 16, 2017
David Zweig
David Brooks and the Tyranny of Data
The New York Times columnist has a habit of mangling research. But his use of skewed data is indicative of a broader malady.
May 2, 2017
Sarah Jones
Bret Stephens Isn’t the Only Problem at the
New York
Times
Op-Ed Page
From Friedman to Bruni, the paper of record’s columnists are abysmal.
April 17, 2017
Theodore Ross
The Osage Murders: A Q&A with David Grann
The veteran journalist discusses his new book, and uncovering one of the worst, unpunished crimes in modern American history.
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