So there I am at my kitchen table, drinking my morning coffee and reading the latest column in the New York Times by Tom Friedman, who I disagree with more often than not. I read pretty much every column by Friedman, Bret Stephens, David Brooks, and other writers with whom I disagree, on the outside […]
Tag: David Brooks
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Ta-Nehisi Coates didn’t come here to give you any answers
The writer and public intellectual fielded questions from a packed audience in Evanston Tuesday night, but said he had few answers to offer about journalism in the age of Trump.
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Add this to your list of newspaper cliches: push
The press has turned push into a Three Bears sort of action verb.
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Why do Trump protesters get in the face of Trump supporters?
And why do Trump’s opponents antagonize them when they could be trying to win them over?
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Soccer, baseball, hockey—what sport is most like life itself?
Thoughts on teamwork, games, and the human condition.
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Breaking news: Chicago doesn’t like Mayor Rahm!
National pundits are coming to the startling realization that the city doesn’t love Rahm Emanuel like they do.
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David Brooks: Kidnapped schoolgirls aside, Africa’s doing great!
This isn’t the best time to interest us in a progress report on Africa.
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In defense of Bruce Rauner
Today’s great question is, who’s the biggest asshole: Rahm, Rauner, or Christie?
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On Mohamed Morsi, Al Jazeera, and censorship
On Mohamed Morsi, Al Jazeera, and censorship.
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Conservative thinking as gay marriage becomes the new normal
The right deals with gay marriage in the Times.