Why Is David Brooks So Often Wrong? Conversation Starter 3
Channel: Derek Cressman
Date: 2017-07-13

New York Times columnist David Brooks recently got himself into a kerfuffle over a poorly drafted paragraph about a snobby sandwich shop. Brooks was on the verge of recognizing the structural economic barriers that create inequality in America when he decided the real problem is elite exclusion of non-college educated people through esoteric food choices.

Others have pointed out the flaws of his sandwich snootiness, but the more important lesson is not that Brooks is stupid (he isn’t) or elite (he is), but rather that his high-brow thinking is precisely what causes him to be so egregiously wrong. We need to understand Brooksism to keep from making the same mistake ourselves.

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