Young People of the World, Do Not Listen to David Brooks

David Brooks says that a new field of "cultural geography" is opening up where people should study why are rejecting a homogeneous culture during this age of globalization and are in fact rejecting globalization while taking advantage of that globalization. However, that he would look for guidance, and suggest that other people start their study of the matter, from people as ass-backwards as Samuel Huntington, suggests that, like always, Brooks has taken an issue and shaped it to fit his own ex-urban view of the world. I would say that if you really find these issues interesting, you forget about reading Huntington or Thomas Sowell and think about picking up Yi-Fu Tuan, Edward Soja, or David Harvey. But I'm only an academic who studies these things. I'm not an over-simplifing conservative who gets hired by the New York Times to dabble in the topic of the day. You should definitely listen to Brooks over me.