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WILL WILKINSON OFFERS A SCORNFUL REVIEW of David Brooks? new book. ?Brooks supplies neither drama, ?

By Glenn Reynolds

WILL WILKINSON OFFERS A SCORNFUL REVIEW of David Brooks’ new book. “Brooks supplies neither drama, high emotion, nor the mindbending metaphysics of aging without time. He serves up instead a shapeless story of ruling-class, Davos-goers so tedious, so lacking in passion and intensity, one begins to hope Harry and Erica will be pursued by proletarian lynch-mobs, revealed as rubber fetishists, or at least stranded at sea one ominous afternoon on a friend?s yacht, just so one may be sure these cardboard cutouts have functioning cardboard hearts. . . . The story of Harold and Erica does not really illustrate a new, coherent, science-based theory of human nature. It is a bowl hammered from Brooks? philosophic predilections into which a jumbled stew of scientific anecdotes is poured. And it is not good stew.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 10, 2011 (boomark / email).