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13. A long time ago I remember Brooks explain how to be a successful op-ed columnist: be wrong.

Fri Jan 30, 2026, 03:40 PM

Jan 2026

Not completely wrong, because people will just think you're an idiot and not care. Not completely right, because people will agree with you and not feel the need to say anything in addition. Be a little wrong and everybody feels compelled to correct you and tell you what you got wrong and why. Lots of attention and publicity!

Somewhere along the line he became wrong about everything, maybe out of habit, and mesmerized by his own droning voice. He really needs to divorce himself and start over. Encouraging him to bore people to death is not doing him any favors.

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David Brooks takes on new Yale fellowship as he leaves New York Times [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 OP

My opinion? Drum Jan 2026 #1

Yale, jd Vance, David Brooks,N Y Times-- a gated community delisen Jan 2026 #2

Yale can't recognize a shallow hack when they see one Stargleamer Jan 2026 #3

just a different place to spread the bothsideserism bullshit. NewHendoLib Jan 2026 #4

Bothesideserism with a very strong bias toward the right. Martin68 Jan 2026 #16

Sure is. NewHendoLib Jan 2026 #18

Fuck Yale, then. RockRaven Jan 2026 #5

I suppose none of us in flyover territory will ever see him in a local diner again Simeon Salus Jan 2026 #6

And when he's not wrong BaronChocula Jan 2026 #9

Oh, dear. Can the world survive this? CTyankee Jan 2026 #7

Glad to know I'm not the only one snot Jan 2026 #8

Finally Fiendish Thingy Jan 2026 #10

What has David Brooks ever been right about? BaronChocula Jan 2026 #11

A long time ago I remember Brooks explain how to be a successful op-ed columnist: be wrong. betsuni Jan 2026 #13

So much encapsulated there BaronChocula Jan 2026 #17

I still remember him whining about inflation during Biden's term Ritabert Jan 2026 #12

Ever since he was an avid apologist for our illegal war on Iraq mahina Jan 2026 #14

Yale is going this shallow right wing "pundit" a prominent role with the university? Why? Martin68 Jan 2026 #15

So long to Brooks's Irish Setter "Moral Hazard" Simeon Salus Jan 2026 #19

I guess Yale has lower standards than the NYT fujiyamasan Jan 2026 #20