The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Tuesday, June 29, 2004  

THEIR MR. BROOKS
Too Clever by A Quarter

This letter to the editors of the New York Times, published today, requires no comment. It begs only for wider distribution:

I’m tired of hearing how David Brooks is, or was, the liberals’ favorite conservative. Too often, instead of using logic to make his case, Mr. Brooks resorts to rhetorical devices and sophistry.

In “All Hail Moore,” Mr. Brooks declares that liberals have turned from John Dewey, Reinhold Niebuhr and Martin Luther King Jr. to Michael Moore for intellectual and moral leadership. This is analogous to saying that Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter have replaced Edmund Burke and Milton Friedman as the conservatives’ guiding lights. Or have they?

Richard Greene, Hopewell, N.J.

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