The job of talking heads is entertainment, not any practical value. I'd say the same is mostly true for the news media at large, as well as bloggers, commentators, humanities theorists, and other professional thinkers.

Peter Zeihan is another grifter along the same lines.

His new grift is that merica is on the right track because religion and China is done for because heathens.

Another hilarious one was Fukuyama and the whole the end of history grift of the 1990s.

I was curious about the piece until I saw Brooks.

Most of the writers for the Atlanic are dead wrong (hell most op-eds are regardless of source) but David Brooks is a "conservative" by liberal standards so people on HN and Twitter love to call him out more than their progressive talking head darlings.