David Brooks on what Senator Clinton appears willing to do to her party for the sake of an estimated 5% chance of winning the nomination. Gist:
Why does she go on like this? Does Clinton privately believe that Obama is so incompetent that only she can deliver the policies they both support? Is she simply [...]

David Brooks has really startled me this week - he’s written a piece that fairly nails white shoe professional practice, as well, apparently, as politics, his intended target:
Every society produces its own distinct brand of social misfits, I suppose, but our social structure seems to produce significant numbers of people with rank-link imbalances. That is [...]