Jon Schwarz: The 10 Most Awful Articles in the Weekly Sta...

Jon Schwarz: The 10 Most Awful Articles in the Weekly Standard���s Short Life I: "'The Collapse of the Dream Palaces' by David Brooks, 2003. The top four places��on this list rightfully belong to the Weekly Standard���s voluble case for, and defense of, the Iraq War. And this David Brooks article��is unquestionably the most horrifying��of them all.... What you may find is that it makes you feel as though a sweaty, middle-aged man is pointing a gun at you and fervently explaining that people like you who wear red shirts are human scum and you, all of you, are about to get what���s coming to you, at last. Then you look down and notice you are not wearing a red shirt, but the man with the gun is. When you���re finished reading the piece, remember that this was published just five months before the New York Times hired David Brooks as an op-ed writer. In other words, the Times saw this gibbering, so disconnected from reality it is functionally insane, and thought: This is exactly who we want explaining the world to our readers...

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