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Op-Ed columnist, . Author of The Road to Character, The Social Animal, and Bobos in Paradise.

Washington, DC
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Joined July 2012
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  1. 8 hours ago

    Amen.

    1. There’s an Army of DC folk with a hole in their heart & their calendar on New Years Day. For decades we all gathered at Gwen’s for food & music & non stop laughter. Over time our hair got grayer. Our waistlines grew. So did our kids & our allegiance to the village she created
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  2. 14 hours ago

    When the indictments come down, Trump won’t play by the rules. He’ll seek to delegitimize those rules. He’ll seek to delegitimize our legal institutions. He’ll seek to destroy the edifice of law in order to save himself.

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  3. Dec 31

    I agree with Conor! And exceptional essay.

    This is my favorite of the articles that I wrote this year.
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  4. 21 Dec 2018

    A centrist is an ex-libertarian who has been mugged by inequality. Well, at least some of them.

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  5. 21 Dec 2018

    The old left-right debate is bogus. The countries with the most open free markets also have generous welfare states.

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    15 Dec 2018

    My happiest literary discovery this year was Min Jin Lee, whose two masterful novels, Pachinko and Free Food for Millionaires, represent a successful effort to write books in the spirit of Anthony Trollope. Read them.

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  7. 15 Dec 2018

    You’re triggering me John. I don’t feel safe!

    Replying to @nytdavidbrooks
    I haven't seen you this angry since you learned your house on Porter had a cracked foundation
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    12 Dec 2018

    is this supposed to be an insult? Cuz we’ll take it...

    If Chick-fil-a were a state it’d be Nebraska
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  9. 15 Dec 2018

    Yes, sometimes even I get angry.

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  10. 15 Dec 2018

    Trump is like those French soldiers who celebrated their glorious early victories on the March to Moscow. Winter is coming.

    The pathetic and dishonest Weekly Standard, run by failed prognosticator Bill Kristol (who, like many others, never had a clue), is flat broke and out of business. Too bad. May it rest in peace!
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    15 Dec 2018

    The paper that this Marginal Revolution post describes is flat-out brilliant, creative social science that potentially has great explanatory power.

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  12. 14 Dec 2018

    This was the most concentrated collection of talent I’ve been around. And the most fun. Read the whole list.

    This is the initial staff roster from The Weekly Standard’s first issue, September of 1995.
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    14 Dec 2018

    So much coverage of The Weekly Standard's demise has been framed around Trump. But this isn't just the loss of a voice. it's the loss of an often-great magazine, driven by solid reporting and strong writing at a time when the conservative media landscape lacks both.

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  14. 14 Dec 2018

    I agree with everything John is saying here. Anschutz and McKibben are small minded, vengeful imbeciles. Much more to come.

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  15. 11 Dec 2018

    Not everybody has access to it, but the capitalist system creates growing wealth for most people.

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  16. 11 Dec 2018

    The most 2018 post I’ve ever read. Our historical moment.

    An open letter to , , and regarding algorithms and my son's birth:
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    10 Dec 2018

    Up next:

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  18. 9 Dec 2018

    John Milton visited Galileo in Florence in 1638 to look through his telescope. Amazing The Fading Stars: A Constellation | Lapham’s Quarterly

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  19. 9 Dec 2018

    Having dinner at a bar in Palo Alto and the amuse bouche after the meal was free cotton candy. Reconsidering all my policy disagreements with Elizabeth Warren.

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    8 Dec 2018

    “Self-pity is an addictive drug; and students who come to campus looking for ways to avoid stress, instead of deal with it, will find dealers in every office and classroom….we shouldn’t be encouraging a policy of immediate surrender.”

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