1. You know I've been arguing that we shouldn't take glee in the demise of The Weekly Standard but this complacent and blinkered David Brooks column is making me reconsider.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/opinion/weekly-standard-closing-conservatism.html …
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2. Brooks' column is semi-interesting in that he's arguing Weekly Standard is victim not just of Trumpism but also of late capitalism's hostility to high culture. Of course, Brooks uses more guarded language ("corporate bureaucrats" and "corporate drones").
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3. The core of Brooks article is the correct observation that it's difficult to produce a high-brow political cultural magazine under capitalism because there's no market for it. But Brooks being Brooks, he avoids calling it capitalism & talks of "corporate bureaucrats."
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4. In talking about "corporate bureaucrats"instead of capitalists, Brooks is playing the familiar game of using Weber as a shield against Marx. It's not the economic system of class inequality that's at fault but the cultural problem of bureaucracy.
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I'm getting there! Was going to cite Daniel's article.
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I think this story does say something about priorities of GOP big money guys.
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