David Brooks shows how a person with an undoubtedly high IQ, which is largely innate, and an impressive pedigree can still have his thought processes stunted by environmental factors. In his case I suspect it comes with cloaking himself for far too long in an elite, blue-skewed bubble. It's sad in a way. He has become a caricature of the elite, condescending former "conservative" intellectual who has moved away from the riff-raff and seen the light. What a waste.
Brooks is a perfect example of the kind of establishment intellectual who has been run over by leftist radicals and has been left sputtering.
You are correct that the colleges today are turning out for the most part two types, Anti-Western radicals and disinterested cynics. And its not just "elite" colleges. It's virtually all of them.
David Brooks shows how a person with an undoubtedly high IQ, which is largely innate, and an impressive pedigree can still have his thought processes stunted by environmental factors. In his case I suspect it comes with cloaking himself for far too long in an elite, blue-skewed bubble. It's sad in a way. He has become a caricature of the elite, condescending former "conservative" intellectual who has moved away from the riff-raff and seen the light. What a waste.
Brooks is a perfect example of the kind of establishment intellectual who has been run over by leftist radicals and has been left sputtering.
You are correct that the colleges today are turning out for the most part two types, Anti-Western radicals and disinterested cynics. And its not just "elite" colleges. It's virtually all of them.
David Brooks may be intellectual but he lacks common sense.