Category: politics

• January 29, 2011

  We’re all hustlers now

  The Cynic In New York, you’re always in somebody’s way and somebody’s always in yours. If you manage to avoid one person, you’ve thereby become, as if by pre-established disharmony, the obstacle for the next. And no matter how flawless your plan of life, you’d do well to act as if each step were improvised,…
• January 25, 2011

  Who is David Brooks?

  David Brooks is a cultural and political columnist for the New York Times. He began writing there in 2003. Before then, he was Senior Editor at The Weekly Standard. If one were pressed to affix a label to him, one do worse than call him a “conservative,” but then the label wouldn’t be terribly helpful.…