david brooks

Our old pal Alex Pareene has it right, of course: The New York Times, despite its pose as the one universal press…

Amphibians, as every little kid knows, are born in water, as larvae, breathing water through gills. Later they…

In the abstract, David Brooks’s choice to begin today’s Times column about the assorted Trump/Russia investigations…

I mean obviously the first and most important point is: Mazel tov! After a few years of harrowing personal crisis…

On Sunday, Frank Bruni dedicated his New York Times op-ed column to the way Donald Trump eats steak. This is not the…

What number of sentences do you guess is sufficient to positively say that David Brooks has failed in the stated…

I am worried about David Brooks.

I started a new job at Deadspin about three weeks ago, and I endured a tough first stretch. That was, in part,…

Bill Simmons this week mused on the fate of Dwight Howard, who appears to be the NBA's equivalent of plutonium: a…

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Someone help me out. Here's David Brooks, the upmarket Jeff Foxworthy, writing about "The ESPN Man" in today's New York Times

"The moral ethos of sport," writes New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks today—and let's pause right there for…

We missed it over the weekend, but our man Pierce found this little turd of cultural intellection dropped by the…

Other than the fact that Upmarket Jeff Foxworthy somehow believes there was once a time of chivalric amateurism, and…

"Joe DiMaggio didn't ostentatiously admire his own home runs, but now athletes routinely celebrate themselves as…

I'm sorry, somehow we missed this bit of intellection from the Upmarket Jeff Foxworthy, David Brooks: "How do you…