From a couple of posts up: He's certainly part of the conservative right.
You believe this because he makes claims like this: The free market doesn't work. People should forego higher paying jobs and do jobs that better help the country. Almost like a large-scale self-imposed socialism.
So basically, Brooks is part of the conservative right because he is more or less pushing one of Obama's policy proposals [1]?
Those two points I give are meant to show the inconsistency in his arguments. One showing how he side steps free markets to argue against even a whiff of intellectualism.
Yet at the same time isn't willing to ask businesses to step up to the plate.
In other words, he's all about the subtext. He doesn't really believe that traditional measures of achievement are coginitively less demanding than 14 year old sleepovers, but he'll say that so that you value it less.
He doesn't actually believe in self-selected socialism (he loves free markets), but he'll attack Harvard grads so you value them less.
You believe this because he makes claims like this: The free market doesn't work. People should forego higher paying jobs and do jobs that better help the country. Almost like a large-scale self-imposed socialism.
So basically, Brooks is part of the conservative right because he is more or less pushing one of Obama's policy proposals [1]?
[1] They might disagree on whether it should be self imposed or government imposed. http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/NationalServicePlanFactSheet....