Goodbye and Good luck, David Brooks

His musings about personal morality have been thoughtful; his views about public morality and our political economy, far less so.

Friends,

New York Times columnist David Brooks, who personifies the oxymoron “conservative thinker” better than anyone I know, has announced he’s leaving his perch there. This deserves a mention because his punditry has been influential among neocons and neoliberals.

I’ve found Brooks’s musings over the past few years about personal morality and character…