David Brooks and the nouveau riche
David Brooks evidently talked the New York Times into sending him on a posh vacation – or perhaps they decided he needed it. However it happened, now the rest of us get to deal with the pretext for the whole adventure: a ridiculous bragsplanation of how great it is to be a pampered bourgeois journalist.
Predictably, the piece has provoked all kinds of we…
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