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...Republican middle (or working) class pitted against a liberal elite. And it isn’t just conservatives who are fudging the numbers. Earlier this year, in their series on class in America, the New York Times—which Brooks ridiculed before joining it as a columnist??told the story of Will Wilson, a man who “fits squarely into [New York City’s] middle class...
This should be the sports columnist??s other primary goal: Write to a wide audience. Who reads the sports page in The Crimson? Harvard athletes? Their parents? Sports fans in the student body? A professor eating lunch in the dining hall? A freshman with five minutes to spare in the bathroom...
...have to admit, it stung a little. When I picked up my New York Times last Tuesday morning, I immediately turned—like a good editorial columnist??to the op-ed page. And there staring back at me was David Brooks’ column, entitled “Stressed for Success?” The piece analyzed how “the [college] admissions process has gone totally insane” and why high school seniors should strive, as hard as it might be, to keep their college acceptances and rejections in proportion. So far, so good...
...need to write a magnum opus, for the sake of your sanity, keep it under the 210-pages of this columnist??s thesis. Editing takes approximately ten times as long as writing. It takes me a full day to read my thesis, let alone fix all those horrendous pages that I wrote while tipsy in the middle of the night trying to meet deadlines. Just as great books can be short and sweet (my favorite book, The Lover, by Marguerette Duras, is 90 small, double-spaced pages), so can great theses...
Running on Valentine’s Day is a columnist??s worst nightmare. Undoubtedly, the majority of my readers have temporarily morphed into bitter, lonely grouses, endlessly bemoaning their solitary existences, while the rest are frantically searching for that perfect gift after having forgotten Valentine’s Day for the third year in a row—hardly a columnist??s dream audience...