Brooks has come up with what he calls The Fallows Question.
This is another example of Brooks at his best.
My views on the usefullness of the media in general is available on this blog.
Even fairly bright, useful, pundits, like the Fallows, who by the way, themselves are rather rare in the pundit species, just don't quite get us very far, within the larger punditocracy, although they toil long and well at it, trying to find the alleged, isolated, spots on the globe where history is allegedly most being made at that time, and then reporting on it to a breathless readership wondering what history might be and how it happens.
With what is now going on, unfortunately for the Fallows, for Brooks, and for us, and even apparent, apparently, to their largely intelligent but intellectually dim American readership, is that they cannot clone themselves a hundred or even a thousand times, to cover all those spots where now, suddenly, for mysterious and ineluctable reasons, history seems to be being made all at once.
The notion of a limited number of such places was always a delusion of modern Western liberalism.
Let's just call it Brooks' The Fallows Fallacy.
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