David Brooks Is Shocked When Tribes Let Sick People Die. He Also Wants to Cut Medicare.

By Richard Eskow | January 23, 2013

In his review of Jared Diamond’s new book, David Brooks is appropriately horrified by the stories of tribal women who were left to die rather than be cared for by their communities. He’s so horrified, in fact, that he seems to reject Diamond’s core thesis that these tribespeople have something to teach us about ourselves.

“It’s hard to know,” Brooks concludes with a nearly audible sigh. “They seem so distant.”

When he was done writing that review Brooks went back to one of his primary preoccupations, which is pushing for Medicare cuts.