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E-PrinceDavid Brooks, columnist for The New York Times, recently described Elena Kagan ’81 as “cagey.” Or, at least, as an example of the sort of Organization Kid who never commits to anything on paper. (Like writing for The Daily Princetonian ...(back to the article)
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Brendan Carroll you are fantastic.
Being the intellectual giant that he is, of course Brendan Carrol has "many professors whom I know well at Princeton." In addition, he also writes in Latin.
I think it is a mistake for Mr Carroll to say that Obamacare 'came with the blessings of every nun in America.' This is blatantly false.
This is actually a really subtle and brilliant article now that I think of it.
The almost impenetrable volume of historical and pop culture references cover all your bases, so that hoi polloi will ignore the things that they do not understand while believing that you've made an intelligible point about something else. Simultaneously, the "density" covers up your arguments so that you don't leave a real paper trail. In the end, all this obscures the fact that what you've really done is write something that is banal and lacking in cohesion.
Luckily for us, we have the paper trail of your terrible articles about Latin and we'll never actually believe that you are some sort of "intellectual giant."
This is a garbage article that does not in any way add to the debate about Kagan. Or anything else, for that matter. Don't you have anything interesting to say, Brendan?
Related: "There’s a reason elite schools speak of training leaders, not thinkers—holders of power, not its critics."
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvant...
Hat tip to Marginal Revolution
"It came with the blessings of every nun in America" is a rather large lie. Far from... Fact checking, Brendan?
Brendan is training to become a faceless right-wing pundit one day. Well done.
now that's a column!
I would think this was a pretty bad article if I wasn't aware of the paper trail of Brendan's "early period". Compared to that it's great.