Yes Folks, David Brooks is Making Up His Own Facts Again

He uses his column today to tell us that "this century is broken." Much of his tale involves the old problem with men story.

"For every one American man aged 25 to 55 looking for work, there are three who have dropped out of the labor force. If Americans were working at the same rates they were when this century started, over 10 million more people would have jobs. As Eberstadt puts it, 'The plain fact is that 21st-century America has witnessed a dreadful collapse of work.'

"That means there’...