Rip, Grapevine
July / August, 2012
The New York Times columnist David Brooks has pretensions of being a deep thinker yet seems determined to avoid deep thought (Playboy Interview, May). I don't mean this just in the sense that he refuses to honestly examine the partisanship he says he finds so distasteful. It's hard to believe a serious person hasn't noticed that Republicans made up theirminds to block anything President Obama might do from the day he was elected. Far more important, Brooks continues to use the same cliches abou...
