Source: Garrison Center
by Joel Schlosberg
“When David Brooks claims that his preferred ‘moderate conservative political philosophy’ is in 2026 ‘so fantastically successful … that moderate Republicans are now the dominant force in American politics,’ his intentional sarcasm is clear before the fourth paragraph of his final New York Times column (‘Time to Say Goodbye,’ February 1): ‘I’m kidding.’ Even if a reader missed out on the decades of Brooks’s commentary as resolutely as literally-frozen-in-time Futurama protagonist Philip J. Fry, its remainder would beg for the response of Fry’s snarky robotic sidekick Bender: ‘Oh wait, you’re serious. Let me laugh even harder.'” (02/03/26)