Brooks no argument: a closer look at the Times' newest columnist.(Currents)
American Prospect, The, October, 2003 by Gitlin, Todd
DAVID BROOKS IS HAVING AN EXCELLENT decade. As he might have put it in his breezy, best-selling Bobos in Paradise, he's the Restoration Hardware of conservative punditry, the Starbucks of insouciant moderation. Indeed, with his frequent appearances in Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly and other magazines, not to mention his regular TV gig, Brooks might seem to have franchised himself.
At The Weekly Standard, amid much drollery and pontificating, he has done what more pundits should do: report. On Jim Lehrer's NewsHour, Brooks has astutely personified suburban conservatism with a human ...
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