Entries tagged "David Brooks"
Lewis suggests Alice Schroeder's new biography of Warren Buffett is too long, too windy and too reverential. But he admits it's highly readable and full of revelatory personal details.
This being election day, David Brooks in The New York Times revs up his trend-o-matic machine to a fever pitch. The election, he says, marks the end of an economic era (the Long Boom beginning in 1983), a political era (Reagan conservatism) and a generational era (the dominance of the baby boomers). Well, give Brooks credit: The op-ed is the epitome of Zeitgeist-obsessed, generationally driven, faux-sociological punditry, with a dash of economic determinism for spice. ...
