Anonymous
Post 03/06/2021 21:06     Subject: Re:Why is David Brooks so famous?
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2021 19:22     Subject: Why is David Brooks so famous?
Anonymous wrote:NP: I have not read this thread but am just reacting to the title. I cannot forgive Brooks for the drumroll to the Iraq war. He can go to you know what for all I care. The fact that the NYT has kept him on speaks volumes about their lack of accountability.


They haven’t and will never get rid of Thomas Friedman, the self-impressed blowhard who sold MBS to Westerners as a progressive ruler, and who has NEVER expressed an appropriate amount of pure horror and shame over how his fatuous lack of analysis and honesty made what MBS did to Khashoggi possible.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2021 18:27     Subject: Why is David Brooks so famous?
Lots of people just kind of fail upward and he is one of them. I do actually like one of his books. he’s not terrible, but there are definitely people out there who deserve to be at least as well-known as he.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2021 18:05     Subject: Why is David Brooks so famous?
NP: I have not read this thread but am just reacting to the title. I cannot forgive Brooks for the drumroll to the Iraq war. He can go to you know what for all I care. The fact that the NYT has kept him on speaks volumes about their lack of accountability.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2021 14:21     Subject: Why is David Brooks so famous?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:His book Bobos in Paradise was great at the time.


Pretty much this. There are fresher, more insightful voices out there now.


He was in his late 30s when that book came out and it was quite a hit. I think that success led him to try and brand himself as a Tom Wolfe for the 00s and it got repetitive. At some point you aren’t exposing the foibles of the UMC any longer; you’re just reminding everyone that you’re an even richer dude celebrating them.


Ding ding ding.

To a person, everyone I know who affirmatively loved/loves that book is a rapacious monster, regardless of purported political affiliation.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2021 13:29     Subject: Why is David Brooks so famous?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:His book Bobos in Paradise was great at the time.


Pretty much this. There are fresher, more insightful voices out there now.


He was in his late 30s when that book came out and it was quite a hit. I think that success led him to try and brand himself as a Tom Wolfe for the 00s and it got repetitive. At some point you aren’t exposing the foibles of the UMC any longer; you’re just reminding everyone that you’re an even richer dude celebrating them.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2021 13:21     Subject: Why is David Brooks so famous?
Anonymous wrote:I like him, he seems to speak from the heart about character. He's good on the Newshour.


His holier-than-thou shtick was so over the top; it was so obvious he was a full of s*** conman. Talks and writes like a televangelist.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2021 13:01     Subject: Why is David Brooks so famous?
I like him, he seems to speak from the heart about character. He's good on the Newshour.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2021 12:58     Subject: Re:Why is David Brooks so famous?
Anonymous wrote:The New Yorker published this 5 minutes ago:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/david-brooks-conversion-story


Sociopath atheist grifter. Pretended to lurch towards Christianity to get his now wife into bed, sell books, and haul in speaking fees.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2021 12:56     Subject: Re:Why is David Brooks so famous?
I hope his young wife wises up and leaves him before she's barren and realizes she wasted her life on this unethical creep.

Anonymous
Post 03/06/2021 12:55     Subject: Why is David Brooks so famous?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Left his wife to marry his very young research assistant. I think he even pretended to flirt with Christianity to get in her pants. He's Jewish. The man is a neurotic creep.


He more recently wrote about values and it just sounded so hypocritical when he wasn't exactly thinking of values when cheating. He sounds great but once you get to know some of this, it just sounds self-serving.


He taught a class at Yale on humility and assigned his own book.


...and wrote an NYT column dedicated to a Yale female undergraduate student of his he clearly had a crush on. It read like a love letter.
Anonymous
Post 03/05/2021 06:49     Subject: Re:Why is David Brooks so famous?
The New Yorker published this 5 minutes ago:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/david-brooks-conversion-story
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2021 22:01     Subject: Re:Why is David Brooks so famous?
The best David Brooks article:
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2004/04/01/david-brooks-booboos-in-paradise/
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2021 16:08     Subject: Why is David Brooks so famous?
He never has anything new to say. He’s very impressed with himself. I also can’t forgive him for drum-rolling the Iraq invasion.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2021 14:35     Subject: Re:Why is David Brooks so famous?
If he gets fired, it’s going to be very hard on him. Could be time for a third wife.