Better Brooks?

I've been wondering if the dinner party was going to have any effect on the writing, so I broke my pledge of abstinence and read David Brooks today. I think the Obama charm thing may have worked at least a little. It was an interesting column. He's dancing around the far edge of the language but BoBo seems to be saying, maybe promoting the concept that greed is good wasn't such a great idea after all.

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