If you don't use Twitter this happens fairly regularly. I think if I trended on Twitter once a month because people don't like me I might rethink my career path
He is currently 58, and that's his 35-year-old wife. I would have much less of an issue if she wasn't also his former research assistant. It's just strange that at a time like the present, Brooks pens a critique of... affluent, non-medical-field, young adult Americans, and the parenting styles that may or may not have caused them to do things like marry David Brooks. This is a man who conjectures about what it might be like to do a thing, but then, doesn't have the guts to do the thing. Just ask his children.
I have a step brother I've only met a few times who has an osteopathic medical degree from a school that's in an industrial park in suburban Atlanta. Grade inflation probably helped him, sure. But I would like to have the kind of brain that looks at this as an indictment of young people and not an example of a horribly broken medical system scrambling for any warm body willing and able to go through the schooling and residency process. Seems like that would be comforting