The New York Times’ David Brooks is a sometimes conservative voice, albeit one who can’t stomach Donald Trump. He is, however, one of our best modern interpreters of sociology and its intersection with politics for the lay reader.
He’s written a long-form article for The Atlantic keying off his Bobos in Paradise book now 17 years old, which he both updates and shows where he was wrong in some of his predictions. It is a good read if you enjoy, as I do, the interactions of social class, occupational cadre, and politics.
Ignore his anti-Trumpism and enjoy his disappointment with the creative class of which he is very much a member. Check out his sense that they’ve behaved selfishly and thus betrayed and corrupted the meritocracy of which they were the prime beneficiaries. This is Brooks working the territory of which he is master, very much worth your time.
