He “writes” a column which largely consists of quoting Michael Moore saying things that are more or less true, but which Brooks takes–self-evidently apparently–to be false, and to be discredited merely by quoting them.

He purports, in the same column, to demean Moore by associating him with two of the most significant intellectual figures of the 20th-century, Chomsky and Sartre.

Forget bats (as in Nagel’s famous question, “what is it like to be a bat?”): what must it be like to be David Brooks? I can’t imagine.

“No ideas and the ability to express them–that’s a journalist”–Karl Kraus.