Sorry David, It’s Absolutely NOT the Age of Skepticism
David Brooks, the widely-read columnist of the New York Times tells us in a column titled The Age of Skepticism, that we are confused and unsteadied and all at sea about everything from government institutions to the stock market . . . and he’s dead wrong.
Check out his column if you have a computer handy, the link is (http://select.nytimes.com/2005/12/01/opinion/01brooks.html) but you have to be a member of Times Select to read it. The New York Times has withdrawn such luminaries as David and Maureen Dowd behind a $40 annual screen.
Be that as it may, David’s thesis is that war is a cultural event and this particular war has presaged a decline in political confidence, that we are all wearied and despondent.
Well, we are certainly that.
I spent the earlier part of this evening catching up on a November 14th New Yorker article titled “A Deadly Interrogation” that details the aftermath (or lack thereof) of the CIA murder of Manadel al-Jamadi. He had the bad luck to be a prisoner of the Unit…