
David Brooks's "Bobos in Paradise"
If Books Could Kill
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Bobo's the Epilogue in 2021
Bob Greene: David Brooks has a very bad diagnosis of what he got wrong. He describes the sort of Trumpest right as people who feel that they have been rendered invisible will do anything to make themselves visible. And then when it comes to left wing activists, like Deflend the police, everything else, he says, wokeness is not just a social philosophy, but an elite status marker and strategy for personal advancement. Same claim of inauthenticity. It's just like liberal hypocrisy, the entire book.
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