David Brooks and the Demand Siders

Erik Kain

Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the contributor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.

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6 Responses

  1. silentbeep says:

    If you haven’t seen it, I suggest Krugman’s rebuttal

    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/arguments-from-authority/Report

  2. North says:

    Well of course he needs to criticize Obama, he looses the key to the conservative bathroom if he doesn’t.Report

  3. Michael Drew says:

    Do you have an economic fix about which you have few doubts, E.D.?Report

  4. Koz says:

    Unlike many other people, I don’t have any particular antipathy for David Brooks. For good or ill he likes to softpedal his rhetotic in general. And in this case, he has to deal with Paul Krugman who has a notoriously short fuse. I think we can forgive him this one.Report