David Brooks's Nihilism

An op-ed from the New York Times columnist presented nihilism as insight, phoned a seven-paragraph book report into the middle, and derrided young people. But raised at least one interesting question.

Without jumping on the bandwagon of reflexively mocking or condemning David Brooks, I was surprised to read one of the worst editorials I’ve ever read in The New York Times—but delighted, too, becaus…