David Brooks: The Art of Thinking Well - The New York Times:
From David Brooks, the man willing to write anything to stay in the inner ring of center-right politics.
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"In every setting — a school, a company or a society — there is an official hierarchy. But there may also be a separate prestige hierarchy, where the cool kids are. They are the Inner Ring.
There are always going to be people who desperately want to get into the Inner Ring and will cut all sorts of intellectual corners to be accepted. As Lewis put it, “The passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things.”
From David Brooks, the man willing to write anything to stay in the inner ring of center-right politics.
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