America Does Not Need a Trimmer: A Response to David Brooks David Brooks argues that America needs “a Trimmer” — a prudent moderate who balances competing truths and resists ideological excess. But moderation is not a moral principle. It is only a tactic, and ...

David Brooks’s new Atlantic essay treats moderation as a virtue in itself. But moderation is only a tactic. Without truth, justice, and moral judgment, balance becomes not wisdom but complicity. My response: “America Does Not Need a Trimmer.”

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