Bobo engages in his trademark style of argument, focusing on abstractions and ignoring evidence about whether or not markets actually work for a given problem. Cohn does a good job pointing out the problems, and I think the most important one is near the end...
the fantasy life of Bobo
I'm very much enjoying this new tradition of Krugman shredding whatever nonsense Bobo offers up in his previous column, and today's implicit response to Brooks's lament about how the dumb.
Shorter David Brooks: "The fact that the new Republican House will totally be run by pragmatic, reasonable moderates interested in cutting deals with Democrats rather than mere obstruction gives me.
"[L]udicrously wrong, Alessandra Stanley-grade wrong." In fairness to Stanley, she at least usually confines her inevitable wrongness to a single field...
Apparently, David Brooks' ability to disguise propaganda as literary criticism might exceed his ability to disguise propaganda as restaurant criticism: Whereas Myers only tells one major lie about the book’s.
Shorter Bobo: Having the Senate run like every pretty much every other democratic legislature in the world would be like genocide. Now, when pro-apartheid southern Senators ran everything and.
Following up on the fine post of his colleague, Bob Herbert tees off (implicitly) on David Brooks's attempts to whitewash Reagan's awful record on civil rights and use of rhetorical code to appeal to the white supremacists whose votes were crucial to the post-CRA partisan...