All Posts Tagged With: "David Brooks"

Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea

It has always been hard to pin down just what “conservatism” stands for, what with people of such widely divergent views as Barry Goldwater, Jerry Falwell, and both George Bushes described by that term. The relatively recent addition to the political lexicon of “neoconservatism” complicates matters further. What do “neocons” believe? Where do their ideas [...]

24Aug2011 | George C. Leef | 4 comments | Continued

America’s Greatness Requires War and Taxes?

New York Times columnist David Brooks thinks America is great but in trouble, and he wants to take steps to preserve American preeminence. He’s right, though not in the way he thinks. In his November 11, 2010, column Brooks argued that we need some sort of National Greatness Agenda; the problem is that his conception [...]

21Apr2011 | Aeon J. Skoble | 1 comment | Continued

It’s All State Capitalism

David Brooks, the New York Times resident conservative op-ed writer, is power’s best friend.

18Jun2010 | Sheldon Richman | 20 comments | Continued

Anti-Populists Made America Great?

New York Times neoconservative columnist David Brooks dislikes populism (“The Populist Addiction,” January 25). “Trust your betters and criticize not their deeds,” he says in effect. After all, when you become a billionaire, you’ll expect others to treat you thus. That any one of us might strike it rich stems, apparently, from the wonderfully open, [...]

20Apr2010 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 1 comment | Continued

The Health Care Debate Was “Meaningful”?

Let’s give credit where credit is due. David Brooks does say one true thing in his New York Times column, “The Values Question”, on government health care reform: “The system after reform will look as it does today, only bigger and more expensive.” Brooks is certainly right that no “health care reform” proposal with any [...]

24Feb2010 | Charles Johnson | 1 comment | Continued

The Health Care Debate Has Been “Meaningful”? It Just Ain’t So!

Credit where credit is due: David Brooks does say one true thing in his New York Times column “The Values Question” (Nov. 24) on government health care reform: “The system after reform will look as it does today, only bigger and more expensive.” Brooks is certainly right that no “health care reform” proposal with any [...]

22Dec2009 | Charles Johnson | 22 comments | Continued

Liberty versus Social Engineering

So David Brooks, the New York Times‘ resident conservative intellectual, must think he’s a pretty clever fellow. In trying to characterize “the choices we face on issue after issue,” he presumes to enlist the aid of philosophers Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and David Hume (1711-1776). Considering that Bentham believed human beings could consciously design society and [...]

9Oct2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

TGIF: Liberty versus Social Engineering

So David Brooks, the New York Times‘ resident conservative intellectual, must think he’s a pretty clever fellow. In trying to characterize “the choices we face on issue after issue,” he presumes to enlist the aid of philosophers Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and David Hume (1711-1776). Considering that Bentham believed human beings could consciously design society and [...]

9Oct2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

Individualism Clashes with Cooperation? It Just Ain’t So!

Individualists get a bad rap in politics these days. That should come as no surprise; politics these days is dominated by electoral politics, and electoral politics is an essentially anti-individualistic enterprise. With free markets and other forms of voluntary association, people who can’t agree on what’s worthwhile can go their own ways. But the point [...]

20Jan2009 | Charles Johnson | 5 comments | Continued

Freedom Is Not the Issue? It Just Ain’t So!

James Bovard is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy, Terrorism and Tyranny, Lost Rights, and other books. The Friends of Leviathan are once again encouraging people to forget about freedom. In a May op-ed piece in the New York Times, columnist David Brooks announced, “The central political debate of the 20th century was over the [...]

1Sep2008 | James Bovard | 0 comments | Continued

Government Intervention Is Needed to Solve the Housing Crisis?

In his March 18, 2008, column in the New York Times, David Brooks addresses the ongoing problems in the housing industry and concludes that “In normal times, the free market works well. But in a crisis like this one, few are willing to sit back and let the market find its own equilibrium.” Instead, Brooks [...]

1May2008 | Steven Horwitz | 3 comments | Continued

Government Is Better than the Market at Producing Human Capital?

Invoking the Founding Fathers is always risky. We typically use the term as an amalgamation, as in “the Founders believed X.” But as a reading of even one semi-serious history of the American founding will show, their beliefs were divergent and contentious. Many libertarians employ the term “Founders” as if to provide a degree of [...]

1Sep2007 | Jude Blanchette | 0 comments | Continued

Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution

By Michael D. Tanner Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling

1Mar2007 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | Continued

Creating Capitalists

Nothing is easier than thinking up ways to dispose of other people’s money. Most politicians devote their lives to this activity, but there is a robust amateur division as well. It consists of pundits, professors, and think-tank fellows who focus their energies on turning out endless plans for  transferring A’s income to B. The details [...]

1May2005 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

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