David Brooks makes confession in this article. He has a tough job. Its hard to produce two op-ed's per week for the NYT. In order to come up with ideas he hits the lecture circuit where he listens to a lot of flashy people whose ideas sound good but seldom pan out. He has rejected the flashy folks with the brilliant ideas in favor of plain folks who produce commodities like food and energy products. They don't get a lot of attention but they produce jobs and they may have found the key to our economic future. The US will become the leading energy producer in the world.
Unfortunately, Brooks got a lot of his new insights by attending a conference at the conservative Manhattan Institute. He did not spend a lot of his valuable time in North Dakota to get his new ideas. The comments that follow his op-ed are very good. They save me the job of making my own comments.
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