Source: Law & Liberty
by Geoffrey M Vaughan
“David Brooks, with his clear eye, is one of those writers with a knack for capturing a cultural moment in print. BoBos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2001) was a standout achievement for the year it appeared, describing the culturally dominant new man that arose in the decade after the project to produce homo Sovieticus was abandoned: the bourgeois bohemian, a peculiar creation of the last decade of the twentieth century. Bobos, as he called them, combined the hitherto incompatible identities of ‘square’ and ‘hippie.’ To paraphrase Milton Friedman, they earn like accountants and eat like organic sheep farmers. That same year, 2001, he published in The Atlantic an article on what he called ‘The Organization Kid.’ … Now, a generation later, Brooks has returned to these same cultural precincts and is horrified.” (12/18/24)