Epistemological Modesty, Ctd.

Three for three. George Packer also critiques Brooks along roughly the same lines as Sullivan.

Brooks pits a rigid, abstraction-loving liberalism against a wise, experience-loving conservatism. But recent American history has shown the truth to be closer to the opposite. We are where we are because the ruling conservative ideology of the past few decades refused to face facts, like the effect of private insurance on health-care costs, or the effect of deregulation on investment banking. Facts drove the Republicans out of power.

Obviously, I just like these three guys a lot. For my money, Sullivan, Packer and Brooks together have their collective finger on the pulse of Obama and his relationship with the country and with history.