Thanks, David. So sorry your fellow countrymen are letting you down.

He states that Pat Buchanan is the “most influential public intellectual in America today.” ???

D. Brooks makes some good points, such as policy wonks need to come up with some policies that make things better for the country as a whole.

The usual guff, with commenters bemoaning once again the failure of the proles to follow the lead of the educated classes, how the GOP destroyed education with a “decades long campaign” against intellectual curiosity, and so forth.

Basically, the sort of people who think seeing “Hamilton” constitutes knowing something about history.

I have two OK degrees in history related topics and those aren’t my people.

Inevitably, the comments section was closed.