David Brooks' Parallel Universe

Just in case you thought that the failure of austerity in the United Kingdom and across the euro zone, and its rejection by voters in France and Greece, might be cause for changing course, David Brooks has a column to tell us otherwise. He says that there are two different arguments going on over economic policy which unfortunately don't intersect.

First, we have the cyclicists who worry about silly things like 25 million people who are unemployed, underemployed or out of the workforce altoge...