[lbo-talk] Brooks on class treason...

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Fri Sep 10 23:10:13 PDT 2004


He displays his usual depth here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/11/opinion/11brooks.html?hp

Now maybe it's Alzheimer's (mine) but i'm totally lost in this argument. He says that number people support Bush and paragraph people support Kerry. Number people like hard clarity (like Bush) and paragraph people like post modern ambiguity (like Kerry). Whatever. Then he observes that 98% of academics support the demos....because they're paragraph people. Last time I looked, half of academia included Physics, Math, Life Science, Economics, etc. Plenty of numbers there.

What am I missing here? Why is it enough for a right winger to be a moron to get published in the NYT?

Joanna



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