David Brooks Argues That If We Were More Moral, We Would Throw Millions More Out of Work

Yes, he did. His paean to the late James Q. Wilson is titled, "the rediscovery of character." It is a discussion of how Wilson touted the importance of values to a country that Brooks believes lacks them.

In the middle of the piece he tells readers:

"Every generation has an incentive to spend on itself, but none ran up huge deficits until the current one. Some sort of moral norms prevented them."

Of course the reason that the country is running up huge deficits at the moment is that private s...