Tag Archive 'Class'

Dear Mr. Brooks: The program you are looking for is the draft

on Jan 31 2012 | Filed under: Media matters

I want a job at the New York Times.  It is clearly a place that pays people to be stupid.  David Brooks gives Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 a very nice review.  Coming Apart claims that there is a big divide between rich Americans and poor Americans.  I like Charles [...]

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Greed is good

on Aug 02 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain, Economics, England

When I was at Berkeley, I had only a few decent professors.  One of them (who was really wonderful) taught a British history class covering the period from 1760 to WWII.  He taught us that the Industrial Revolution, though it started in England, petered out.  It lacked the ferocity and longevity that characterized the American [...]

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on May 05 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama

Maureen Dowd is perplexed:  How can Barack Obama, who grew up with a poor, single mother, keep appearing to be the black John Kerry, an effete Ivy Leaguer, out of touch with the ordinary voter? In her mind, it’s all the problem of a low class black kid have overlearned his lesson when he was [...]

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