April 2015

If you frequent this here premier “web log,” there’s a good chance you may once or twice have read the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s is a doozy and comes from our old pal David Brooks, who in his column today, “The Lost Language of Privacy,” writes: Cop-cams will insult families. Honestly, there was so much...