Of the Faking of Brooks

With a timely note on plagiarism

It’s David F. Brooks of The New York Times, with a big proposal for the 2024 presidential campaign (“What Biden Needs to Tell Us”), but first he needs to fill us in on some of the background:

Sometimes social revolutions emerge from ordinary ideas. In the 17th and 18th centuries, thinkers like William Petty, David Hume and Adam Smith popularized a concep…