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David Brooks Stumbles Over the Work Force in Attacking the Minimum Wage

February 25, 2014   ·   0 Comments

Brooks on Min Wage

By Dean Baker: David Brooks doesn't like the idea of raising the minimum wage. But the good news is that...

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Zen Over Zinn: Avoiding Unpleasant Truths with David Brooks

By Steve Breyman: We all know people who prefer cozier psychic climes to those offered up by reality. They’re ubiquitous, the place is lousy with them. ...

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David Brooks Flunks International Relations Theory 101

By Daniel Warner: Brooks’ caricature of Machiavelli allows him to pose a dilemma that has appeared regularly in Realist literature as a binary division between idealism and realistic power politics that is now couched in terms of using drones.

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Timbuktu and our Serious People!

By Bob Somerby: In Friday morning’s New York Times, David Brooks lays out the case for comprehensive immigration reform.

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David Brooks, in Defense of Doing Nothing

By Marie Burns: Like most conservatives, New York Times columnist David Brooks cannot hold two opposing ideas in his mind at the same time. In fact, ...

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What do the Beltway Moderates Actually Want?

By Alex Pareene: As David Brooks taught us last week, Barack Obama’s cunning plan to sabotage and undermine the Republican Party is to repeatedly force them to act ...

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David Brooks’ Trouble With Arithmetic Leads Him Astray Again

By Dean Baker: David Brooks would benefit hugely from a remedial course in grade school arithmetic. It might keep him from saying silly things in his ...

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The Fantasies of David Brooks: What Has the NYT Columnist Been Smoking?

By John W. Farley: David Brooks, conservative pundit at the New York Times, reviewed a new book (The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from ...

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David Brooks Teaching Writings by David Brooks in Yale Course on Humility

By Joe Coscarelli: When word got around that David Brooks would be the professor of a spring course at Yale called "Humility," the public intellectual/punching bag told us ...

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David Brooks Is A Very Funny Fellow

By Charles P. Pierce: New York Times columnist David Brooks is teaching a course at Yale on "Humility."

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