David "Semi True" Brooks
Language Log 2013-03-20
Summary:
David Brooks, "The Progressive Shift", NYT 3/18/2013:There is a statue outside the Federal Trade Commission of a powerful, rambunctious horse being reined in by an extremely muscular man. This used to be a metaphor for liberalism. The horse was capitalism. The man was government, which was needed sometimes to restrain capitalism’s excesses.I recently claimed thatDavid [...]