I'm sorry that David Brooks is just now noticing that Americans can be mean. I really am.

I suspect, though, that if he'd asked, oh, say, people of color, LGBTQ ones, immigrants, native Americans, etc., he'd have found long since that the American mean streak is nothing new. It just feels entitled to show itself without apology right now.

Straight white men surely do seem to need a not of educating. From those they've long ignored….

#DavidBrooks #Americans

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/us-culture-moral-education-formation/674765/