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David Brooks's "Bobos in Paradise"

If Books Could Kill

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Is That What David Brooks Is Doing?

This is interesting because it reads like a withering critique of that type of centrism. And that's exactly what David Brooks politics are. He's just saying that he's like, Oh, the ruling class is like the wealthy who like actually control things in this country. They basically just want to stay affluent and they want everybody to stop shouting. I truly cannot believe that he wrote all of that out and then went on to lead the life that he has led.

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