The Monkey Cage

I’m slightly terrified now that Bill Clinton, special envoy to Haiti, has said David Brooks is his leading intellectual light.

That is Chris Blattman, concluding a tidy little response to this David Brook piece.

I also thought this was interesting, especially in light of my darts this week at Maureen Dowd:

Don’t misunderstand me: Brooks could be right. In fact, I’m starting one randomized control trial to test the idea. I’m a little further from propounding it as God’s honest truth on the pages of the Times.

Can you be a good op-ed columnist and still admit uncertainty? The answer has to be yes. I await proof, however.