Every David Brooks column is a humiliating self-portrait but this one really gets to the core of his vacuous nebbishy authoritarianismpic.twitter.com/ykqh4ghWVO
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Every David Brooks column is a humiliating self-portrait but this one really gets to the core of his vacuous nebbishy authoritarianismpic.twitter.com/ykqh4ghWVO
Count the layers of distancing and abstraction Brooks puts between himself and the ideas in play: My friend argues (1) that Jordan Peterson (2) is the most influential (3) public intellectual (4)...
Brooks himself would like to be an influential public intellectual, and might seem to have a platform for it, but here he is pawing through other people's merchandise.
Jordan Peterson matters to David Brooks because Jordan Peterson is (said to be) popular with young men.
Brooks has been going through a mid-life crisis for a few years now. Even getting a younger wife hasn't helped.
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