David Brooks’s ”Bobos in Paradise”

David Brooks became liberals' famous conservative by telling them what they wanted to hear. But ... why did they want to hear something that was lazy and wrong?

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Sources:

• A Reasonable Man
• David Brooks: Boo-Boos in Paradise
• A Cartoon Elite
• David Brooks’s Conversion Story
• David Brooks and the Endless Grift of the Conservative Commentariat
• How The Bobos Broke America
• Death Of A Yuppie Dream: The Rise And Fall Of The Professional-Managerial Class
• Stuff the Professional-Managerial Class Likes: "Distinction" for an Egalitarian Elite
• David Brooks’s Search for Meaning
• The facts vs. David Brooks: Startling inaccuracies raise questions about his latest book
• David Brooks Is Not Buying Your Excuses, Poor People

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