Content about David Brooks

07.02.10

Deformed conservatism: David Brooks rebrands the failed philosophy of George W. Bush.(Ideas)

WRITING A WEEK after the 2008 presidential election, New York Times columnist David Brooks tried to handicap the "fight over the future of conservatism." It would be a battle between "traditionalists," who want to "Cut government, cut taxes, restrict immigration," and "reformers," who agree with an Publication: The American Conservative

11.01.09

The emerging consensus on Obama, the commander-in-chief

David Brooks has been talking to military experts he respects -- "retired officers, analysts who have written books about counterinsurgency warfare, people who have spent years in Afghanistan" -- to get their view of the strategic choices facing the president. Brooks reports that these experts have responded not by discussing the ins-and-outs of the strategic choices, but by questioning whether President Obama possesses the determination to wage a sustained war:

03.22.09

It could happen here, Part Two

A few days ago, in expressing my doubts about David Brooks' claim that America's cultural DNA ensures we will never operate our economy along European lines, I pointed to the transformation of England's economic system that occurred in the last century. After putting up the post, I recalled a comparison I read years ago between the funerals of Princess Diana (1997) and WInston Churchill (1965).