Epitath for a Bobo

Ross Douthat is at the Aspen Ideas Festival where a bunch of smart people (and torture fetishist John Yoo) are doing some serious chin-stroking amid murmurs of "hmmmm, interesting" and "My god -  look at the size of his head. It’s fucking huge."

Ross comments on David Brooks chance to shine:

My morning session here at Aspen featured David Brooks talking about the subject of his next book, which will focus on the brain, neuroscience, sociology, politics, and the intersection thereof. He cautioned at the beginning that he’s only a quarter of the way through the book, and the talk reflected that fact: It was more a diffuse collection of observations, anecdotes and arguments than a tightly-focused narrative.

So, basically it was one of Brooks columns made flesh.

A reminder once again that Times Select was more of a prophylactic than a money making scheme…